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