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Battle of The Atom

Ranking every X-Men story from A to Z. Hosted by Zack Jenkins and Adam Reck.

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Battle Of The Atom: Zombie Survival Plan

Zachary Jenkins3 years ago3 years ago01 mins

Happy Halloween! We here at Battle Of The Atom have decided to celebrate by talking about the scariest thing of all, bad comics. Ranked This Episode: Excalibur #118-119 (Dark Night Of The Bamfs) Marvel Zombies Halloween #1 Weapon X #22-27 (Weapon X Force)

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Battle Of The Atom: Stan Lee Presents: X-Men: The End: Book 272: Adams and Zacks

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck3 years ago3 years ago01 mins

Wanna see Adam grow increasingly more angry and Zack’s commitment to bits? Bits everyone loves? Could this be the end of Battle Of The Atom? Spoiler Alert: No. Ranked This Episode: Stan Lee Presents: X-Men: The End: Book One: Dreamers and Demons Stan Lee Presents: X-Men: The End: Book Two: Heroes and Martyrs Stan Lee…

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Battle Of The Atom: NYCC 2022

Adam Reck3 years ago3 years ago01 mins

Adam hits the show floor to talk to some fantastic creators at New York Comic Con 2022. 4:30 – Zeb Wells 7:37 – Steve Orlando 15:05 – Maria Wolf 20:25 – Danny Lore 28:45 – David Nakayama 34:00 – Bill Sienkewicz

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Battle Of The Atom: Our Flag Means Death

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck3 years ago3 years ago01 mins

Everyone knows how the X-Men are pirates now. These are times when the X-Men met some pirates. Yo Ho! Ranked This Episode: Marauders #1-12, #16 Uncanny X-Men #384-385, X-Men #104 (Crimson Pirates) Nightcrawler #8-12 (Bloody Bess + Shadow King)

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Battle Of The Atom: Jorts!

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck3 years ago3 years ago01 mins

We sometimes spend our time talking about deep important stories that challenge what it means to be human. Other times we talk about a dinosaur man. This is a dumb one and I love it. Ranked This Episode: Uncanny X-Men #353-355 (Sauron) Weapon X – The Draft: Sauron #1 Wolverine/Badrock

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Battle Of The Atom: Giant Spider Baby

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck3 years ago3 years ago01 mins

Folks, they say you can never go home again. That has literally, never once, in his entire life, stopped Chris Claremont from trying. We travel to the world of Elsewhen and see all these times creators just, came back and did something weird. X-Men Forever #1-5 X-Factor Forever First X-Men

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Battle Of The Atom: Grindhouse Of X with Leah Williams

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck3 years ago3 years ago01 mins

We get it started in here with X-Terminators writer Leah Williams on a very dumb (complimentary) comic. It’s X-Terminators week at long last!

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Battle Of The Atom: A Good Death

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck3 years ago3 years ago01 mins

We spend some time with Dani Moonstar as strange things happen to her all the time. Multitudes? She contains them. Ranked This Episode: New Mutants #37 (If I Should Die) X-Force #83-84 (Homefront) X-Force #99-100 (Dark Cathedral)

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Battle Of The Atom: Sparkly Crystal Diamond Claws

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck3 years ago3 years ago01 mins

Battle of the Atom present some Marvel Comics Presents. Are these comics good? Must they be? Ranked This Week: Marvel Comics Presents #109-116 (Typhoid’s Kiss) Marvel Comics Presents #117-122 (Claws & Webs) Marvel Comics Presents #1-9 (Vigil)

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Battle Of The Atom: Dinosaur Hunting (For The Right Reasons)

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck3 years ago3 years ago01 mins

We travel back to 1989 and spend an entire episode talking about weird things that happened in that year, including something that didn’t actually happen. Ranked This Episode: Uncanny X-Men #251-252 (Fever Dream) Punisher: War Journal #6-7 “Family Ties”

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Battle Of The Atom: A Square Of Raw Power

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck3 years ago3 years ago01 mins

In 1998 Marvel comics decided that Cable should just be a Jack Kirby character for a while and boy oh boy was it a good time. Let Zack & Adam transport you to the weird world of the Askani’son as we more or less worship Ladronn in this episode. Ranked this Episode: Cable #48-53 (Hellfire…

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Battle Of The Atom: Sheath Our Blades

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck3 years ago3 years ago01 mins

We all have swords this week as we talk about stories were people get swords. Spoiler alert, it holds up. Ranked This Episode: X Of Swords Rise Of Apocalypse Wolverine vol 3 #36-40 (Origins and Endings)

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Battle Of The Atom: That’s A Baby

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck3 years ago3 years ago01 mins

We raise our swords to talk about Excalibur this week with some wacky stories that one of us likes a lot more than the other. Who is who may surprise you. Ranked this episode: Excalibur #62-65 (Warpies Return) Excalibur #6-8 (Inferno) Excalibur: The Sword Is Drawn

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Battle Of The Atom: I Just Eat His Salsa

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck3 years ago3 years ago01 mins

Enter the world of Mutant X, a run that’s buck wild and if anyone tries to tell me it is good, I will think less of them. Maddy is in this a lot and people like her. Ranked This Episode: Mutant X #4-12 & Annual 1999 (Goblin Queen) Mutant X #31-32 & Annual 2002 (Beyonder)…

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Battle Of The Atom: SSRI Hot Chick

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck3 years ago3 years ago01 mins

Dare to talk about drugs today with the boys of Battle Of The Atom. Ranked This Episode: X-Men Legacy #10-12 (Invasive Exotics) Ultimate X-Men #94-97 (Banshee) Spider-Man, Power Man & Storm: Smokescreen

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