Battle Of The Atom: An X-Men Podcast

Battle Of The Atom: An X-Men Podcast

Join Zack and Adam as they battle to decide the best and worst X-Men stories of all time!

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February 23, 2026 71 mins

Episode Notes

Marvel, many times, will tell you that nothing will ever be the same again, when many times, not only will it be the same, but you will forget that they ever said that things would be different. This is that but with character.

Ranked This Episode

  • X-Men Unlimited #8 (Bolt)
  • X-Men Unlimited #27 (Thunderbird III)
  • Marvel Voices Pride 2021

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There's a certain person who hates birthdays, but normally for shame based reasons. Wolverine? He has better reasons.

Ranked This Episode:

  • Wolverine Vol. 4 #5.1
  • Amazing Spider-Man: Extra! #2
  • Wolverine First Class #2

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February 2, 2026 68 mins

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If I only could, I'd make a deal with God. Have Paul Smith draw less Morlocks. It would fix a lot of things, make a bit more sense, but then we would miss these stories.

Sing it, it tracks.

Ranked This Episode:

  • X-Factor #21-23

  • Storm vol 1

  • Uncanny X-Men v4 #6-10 (Apocalypse Wars)

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January 26, 2026 62 mins

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The X-Men have often been cartoons, but what if they tried to be funny? Would that be good?

History says "no".

Ranked This Episode

  • The Uncanny X-Men: Days of Future Fun

  • What The--?! #3-4 (Mutant Beach Party)

  • Not Brand Echh #4

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January 19, 2026 69 mins

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I wonder if people know the burden of being an X-Men fan and having to keep all these stories in facts straight when, SOMETIMES, the comics don't put in the same effort to remember unimportant stuff.

Ranked This Episode:

  • Kitty Pryde: Agent of SHIELD

  • X-Men True Friends

  • X-Men Forever 2 #7-10

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January 12, 2026 73 mins

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Some have called us the Cheech & Chong of X-Men podcasts. I've never seen those movies but I can say that if one of them is constantly suffering from bits that only the other person thinks is funny, then the descriptions fits. This is the weed number episode.

Danked This Episode:

  • Kissnation #1

  • Uncanny X-Men #417-420 (Dominate Species)

  • X-Force #121-122 (Laccuna)

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Alex Paknadel comes on the show to chat about his upcoming Cyclops series, the Punch Dimension, and what it's like writing X-Men in this last year.

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December 22, 2025 54 mins

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There is an epidemic striking our country, that is an epidemic of running out of holiday themed stories to cover at Christmas time. Therefore I want no complaints at what Santa brought you.

Ranked This Episode;

  • Marvel Holiday Special 1996

  • Marvel Holiday Magazine #1

  • Marvel Holiday Tales To Astonish #1

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December 15, 2025 71 mins

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Ranked zis episode:

  • X-Treme X-Men #10-16 (Invasion)

  • Uncanny X-Men #399 (For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge)

  • New X-Men #128-130 (Fantomex)

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December 8, 2025 63 mins

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In 2007, the creative team of J. Michael Straczynski and Joe Quesada had children's pull-ups character Spider-Man sell his marriage to the Satan Mephisto in exchange for the life of his dear Aunt May, an octogenarian who lived a full life that was marred near its end by nearly weekly health issues and who was assumed dead at the start of Straczynski's run.

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We love Nightcrawer, we love all types of blue people, we also love Dr. Anna Peppard who is not blue.

Ranked This Episode:

  • Excalibur #16-17 (Warlord Kurt)

  • Exiles v1 #41-42 (A Nocturne's Tale) 

  • X-Men First Class: The High Hand

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November 24, 2025 62 mins

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You'll never go in the water again, but maybe you'll go back in the podcast again and talk about Loa (Alani Ryan).

Ranked This Episode:

  • Classic X-Men #13

  • Namor: The First Mutant #5

  • Deadpool vol 7 #6

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November 17, 2025 69 mins

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Trent Renzor once said "I want to feel you from the inside" and the gothy romantic she is, Moira took that seriously in her tenth life.

Ranked This Episode:

  • What If? #75 (What if Blink hadn't died?)

  • Generation X #71-75 (Four Days)

  • X Deaths of Wolverine

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November 10, 2025 54 mins

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Zack gets mad at people who take a man named Victor Von Doom too seriously. Adam does his absolute best to save the podcast from neurogas. Ranked This Episode:

  • Uncanny X-Men #145-147
  • Uncanny X-Men #197
  • Super-Villain Team-Up #14, Champions #16

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November 2, 2025 56 mins

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It's a lovely morning in the X-Mansion, and you are a horrible mutant.

Ranked This Episode:

  • Secret Wars II #5
  • X-Factor #12
  • New Mutants vol 4 #3-4,6

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October 27, 2025 57 mins

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Happy Halloween everybody. We have stories about corpses. Also economics? Ranked This Episode:

  • New Mutants #64 (The Resurrection on Cypher)
  • Marvel Comics Presents #90-97 (Ghost Rider & Cable: Servants of the Dead)
  • Gambit vol 4 #7-9 (Voodoo Economics)

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October 20, 2025 64 mins

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Look folks we are 30 or 40 years old, sometimes it takes 3 weeks to record an episode about 5 total issues of comics. This is what life is for us who choose this life. Ranked This Episode:

  • Team X / Team 7
  • Wolverine/Deathblow #1-2
  • Shi/Wolverine

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September 29, 2025 64 mins

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Sometimes, X-Men comics have something to say. No one said they should say it, but darn it, the X-Men are going to say something.

Ranked This Episode:

  • New Mutants #45 (Larry Bodine)
  • Muties
  • Generation Hope #9

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September 22, 2025 66 mins

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The Editor in Chief of Marvel Comics once did an elaborate deception, pretending to be a Japanese Manga writer named Akira Yoshida, in order to skirt internal rules and write some of the biggest weeb comics in Marvel's history. Everyone involved still gets mad when you bring it up because the consequence was more or less the dude taking a year off to write a comic about how much sex his always has. But look, ...

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September 15, 2025 68 mins

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We’re talking about X-stories from the mid-80s and early 90s that incorporate the incomprehensible idea that anything bad could ever happen to the Twin Towers.

Ranked This Episode:

  • X-Force #3-4, Spider-Man #16 (Sabotage)
  • Uncanny X-Men #189 (Two Girls Out To Have Fun)
  • Marvel Graphic Novel #17 (Revenge of the Living Monolith)

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