Episode Notes When I wore a younger man's clothes I used to go to concerts and have a great time. Now I talk about them on podcasts. Ranked This Episode: X-Men Unlimited #32 (Behind The Music) New Mutants #33-36 (Diskhord) X-Men '92 #6-10 (Lilapalooza) Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List! New content every week on ComicsXF.com Foll…

Episode Notes Sometimes SOMEONE will start a plot and ever finish it. This is about the time Claremont decided Dazzler was immortal. Ranked This Episode Uncanny X-Men #217-218 (Dazzler v Juggernaut) New Excalibur #1-3 (Here We Go Again!) New Excalibur #6-7 (So Why Is It I'm Not Dead?!) Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List! New conte…

Episode Notes I once threatened Adam with a Madam Web episode. Well guess what the Bad Boy Of X-Men Podcasting did? Plus Zack & Adam sent each other predictions of the new X-Men era. Now that it's announced we get to see who was right and who is committed to bits you couldn't possibly understand. Ranked This Episode: Amazing Spider-Mam #229-230 (No…

Episode Notes Our beloved Bendis era X-Men. Our Saint, Eva Bell. This one is for you.Ranked This Episode: Uncanny X-Men Annual & All-New X-Men Annual (The Secret Life Of Eva Bell) Uncanny X-Men vol 3 #17-18 Uncanny X-Men vol 3 #19-22 (VS S.H.I.E.L.D.) Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List! New content every week on ComicsXF.com Follo…

Episode Notes Who is ready for a huge amount of discussion about sustainability and how to manage the pending climate disaster? Ranked This Episode: X-Men Green Wolverine: Global Jeopardy Doom 2099 #19-21 Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List! New content every week on ComicsXF.com Follow Adam on Twitter @arthurstacy & never try to f…

Episode Notes Austin Gorton teams up with Adam today for a very exciting episode all about Lila Cheney.Ranked This Episode: New Mutants #42 (Sam + Lila) X-Factor v1 #110-111 (Lila + Guido) Strong Guy Reborn #1 Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List! New content every week on ComicsXF.com Follow Adam on Twitter @arthurstacy & never try…

Episode Notes With apologies to our neighbors up north, this sure is not the nicest thing anyone has ever recorded about Canada...Ranked This Episode: Uncanny X-Men #139-140 Amazing X-Men #8-12 (World War Wendigo) Incredible Hulk #180-181 (And Now... the Wolverine!) Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List! New content every week on Com…

Episode Notes I know cats aren't dogs. I don't know if Jeff Loeb does. Ranked This Episode: Wolverine v3 #13-19 (Return of the Native) Wolverine v3 50-55 (Evolution) Wolverine v3 57-61 (Logan Dies) Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List! New content every week on ComicsXF.com Follow Adam on Twitter @arthurstacy & never try to find Zac…

Episode Notes Oh baby, we're hot just like an oven for this the newest episode of Battle Of The Atom. This time it's about dating. Ranked This Episode X-Men v2 #24 Ultimate X-Men #66-68 (Date Night) Wolverine & the X-Men #14 (Kitty/PhoenixPiotr Date) Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List! New content every week on ComicsXF.com Follow…

Episode Notes Celebrate Betsy with us as Psylocke meets our psyche. Ranked This Episode: New Mutants Annual #2 (Wildways) Uncanny X-Men #328 & Sabretooth Special #1 X-Men #77-78 (Psi-War) Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List! New content every week on ComicsXF.com Follow Adam on Twitter @arthurstacy & never try to find Zack! Our the…

Episode Notes Zack has the week off so Adam is joined by Harvard Prof Stephanie Burt (of Taylor Swift course fame) to talk Kitty Pryde! Ranked This Episode: Uncanny X-Men #168 (Professor Xavier Is A Jerk) Marvel Team Up #135 (Spidey & Kitty) Classic X-Men #35 (Paper, Not Paper) Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List! New content every…

Episode Notes Has Battle of the Atom turned into too much of a dads making dick jokes podcast? You be the judge because we are talking about X-Men character Man-Thing this week. I cannot tell if people enjoy it when we stretch the premise of the show like this and we no longer need the feedback as we have become part of the great mycelium network. …

Episode Notes Want to listen to two dudes not want to talk about comics for a while? You have come to the right place. For further reading on this run, check out this fantastic article by our pal Nola Pfau. Ranked This Episode Uncanny X-Men #11-16 (This Is Forever) War Of The Realms: Uncanny X-Men Uncanny X-Men #17-22 (We Have Always Been) Check ou…

Episode Notes Oh dang it's The Fury! I don't know if you know this, but it kills superheroes. Ranked This Episode The Jasper's Warp (Marvel Superheroes #377–388, The Daredevils #1-11, The Mighty World of Marvel Vol. 2 #7-13) Captain Britain #15-27 (Cap & Cap Vs Red Skull) Captain Britan #5-9 (Double Game) Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ran…

Episode Notes Merry Christmas everyone, let's celebrate with Zack's unsolicited opinions.Ranked This Episode: Dark Web X-Men Marvels Epilogue Marvel Holiday Special 94 Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List! New content every week on ComicsXF.com Follow Adam on Twitter @arthurstacy & never try to find Zack! Our theme music is Junk Fac…

Episode Notes It's the end of the year, go get that thing checked out. The waitlist for Dr. visits is too long and you know it. Ranked This Episode: Uncanny X-Men Special #1, Iron Man Special #1, Nova Special #1 (No End In Sight) Uncanny X-Men v2 Annual #3, Steve Rogers: Super Soldier Annual #1, Namor: The First Mutant Annual #1 (Escape from the Ne…

Episode Notes It's the newest episode of that podcast that's stuck in your head, stuck on your heart, stuck on your body, body. Might want to get that checked out... Ranked This Episode: Runaways vol 2 #9-12 (East Coast/West Coast) Runaways vol 3 #10 (Mollifest Destiny) Runaways vol 5 #33-35 (Come Away With Me) Check out the Battle of the Atom Mast…

Episode Notes The Ultraverse dares to ask, what if comics sucked? Spoiler alert but we have never ranked this many bad comics in one episode. Ranked This Episode Phoenix Resurrection (Ultraverse) All-New Exiles Vs X-Men #0 All-New Exiles #∞, 1-3 Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List! New content every week on ComicsXF.com Follow Adam…

Episode Notes Who is ready for Zack and Adam to argue about She-Hulk, a show one of that has not watched, for longer than we talk about some comics? Also, lots of love for John Proudstar, the star of The Gifted, a show we both did watch but forgot about until Zack was writing the episode notes. Ranked This Episode: X-Men #22-23 (Count Nefaria) Unca…

Episode Notes Has there ever been a good Mojo story? One that didn't disappoint? This episode will not help your case if you there there has been. Ranked This Episode: Uncanny X-Men #460-461 (Mojo Rising!) Mojo Worldwide (X-Men Gold & Blue) Mr & Mrs X #7-10 (Gambit & Rogue Forever) Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List! New content e…

Episode Notes Remember when this podcast started and we were deep in the dog days of the Terrigen Mists? Zack & Adam remember.Ranked This Episode Civil War II: X-Men Deadpool & The Merc$ For Money #7-8 Secret Warriors #8-12 Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List! New content every week on ComicsXF.com Follow Adam on Twitter @arthursta…

Episode Notes Hell-ppy Hell-oween everyone. We are doing a Hell House instead of a heathen haunted house this year on Battle Of The Atom. ComicsXF Senior Hell Correspondent Robert Secundas joins us. Ranked This Episode: X-Men Annual #4 (Nightcrawler's Inferno) Wolverine #1-5 (Wolverine Goes To Hell) Sabretooth #1-5 (The Adversary) Check out the Bat…

Episode Notes Adam does interviews with a lot of folks. Zack has not actually listened to the episode yet. Please let him know any exciting news that comes from these. Ben Percy (Wolverine and X-Force) Philip Sevy (X-Men Unlimited, Deadpool Seven Slaughters) Bernard Chang (Jean Grey) Tini Howard (Excalibur, X-Corp, Knights of X, Capt Britain) Lucas…

Episode Notes There's a real upsetting thing about time in that it feels like time is all messed up as is our perception of time. I thought these stories came out last week and they DID NOT. Ranked This Episode X-Men #18-19 (The Vault) Cable vol 4 #1-4 (Light Of Galador) X-Corps Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List! New content ever…

Episode Notes Adam and Zack gush about a forgotten gem and then also other comics with Domino in them.Ranked This Episode: Domino vol 1 Domino vol 2 Domino vol 3 #1-6 Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List! New content every week on ComicsXF.com Follow Adam on Twitter @arthurstacy & never try to find Zack! Our theme music is Junk Fact…

Episode Notes We're finally here with our most attitude filled episode ever. Featuring WWE SmackDown referee Jason Ayers!Ranked This Episode: X-Force: Sex & Violence Wolverine #159-161 (Best There Is) The Brotherhood Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List! New content every week on ComicsXF.com Follow Adam on Twitter @arthurstacy & ne…

Episode Notes Welcome to America's #1 podcast about children's X-Men comics. None of these stories are intended for the over 10 crowd, but that's not going to stop us! Ranked This Episode Meet The X-Men X-Men: Morlock Madness Avengers Assembly: X-Change Students 101 Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List! New content every week on Com…

Episode Notes Oh Magma, of all the New Mutants you are simply the one who can't seem to happen. Interesting then that you have become a stealth favorite of Marc Guggenheim... Ranked This Episode: New Mutants #37 (A Date With The Devil) Young X-Men #1-5 X-Men: Gold #1-3 Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List! New content every week on …

Episode Notes Everyone loves Amanda Sefton, it's hard not to, despite the many terrible comics she has been in. We also love her and find, perhaps, a good gem that she has done. Ranked This Episode Magik X-Men Unlimited #19 X-Men: Black Sun Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List! New content every week on ComicsXF.com Follow Adam on T…

Episode Notes Good morning folks. This one is about Rogue and then also about letting Chris Claremont do whatever he wants. Ranked This Episode: Uncanny X-Men #171 (Welcome To The X-Men Rogue) X-Men #197-199 (Red Data) X-Treme X-Men #31-36 (Intifada) Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List! New content every week on ComicsXF.com Follow…

Episode Notes Amber is the color of our energy as we return to talk all about Eye-Boy, a great guy all around. Ranked This Episode Generation X vol 2 #5 X-Factor #1-3, 5 (Krakoa) Wolverine & the X-Men #29 Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List! New content every week on ComicsXF.com Follow Adam on Twitter @arthurstacy & never try to f…

Episode Notes Another episode of Battle Of The Atom, another chance for Zack to frustrate Adam by talking about the obscure X-Men characters only he and Steve Orlando remember. This time it's Hellions. Ranked This Episode: Hellions #9-11 (Funny Games) New X-Men: Hellions X-Force #87-90 (Armageddon Now) Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Rankin…

Episode Notes Forge! He's the maker and boy howdy does he have a lot going on. Zack has a lot going on too. He got a new chair! Ranked This Episode: Uncanny X-Men #184-185 (Depowering Storm) New Mutants #65-66 (Magik V Forge) X-Men vol 6 #15-17 (Forge in The Vault) Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List! New content every week on Comi…

Episode Notes This is the one you have been waiting for. It is a podcast all about X-Men: Destiny character Pixie. Ranked This Episode: X-Men: Pixie Strikes Back Uncanny X-Men #500-503 (SFX) Runaways vol 4 Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List! New content every week on ComicsXF.com Follow Adam on Twitter @arthurstacy & never try to …

Episode Notes [Insert bit about Bendis] Also Tony joins us! Ranked This Episode: All-New X-Men #31-36 (Meet Miles) Ultimate X-Men #40-45 (New Mutants) Ultimate Spider-Man Annual #1 Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List! New content every week on ComicsXF.com Follow Adam on Twitter @arthurstacy & never try to find Zack! Our theme musi…

Episode Notes Once upon a time, The Rob ruled the world. It wasn't a good time, but we had fun talking about it. Ranked This Episode Youngblood/X-Force X-Force/Youngblood Prophet/Cable Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List! New content every week on ComicsXF.com Follow Adam on Twitter @arthurstacy & never try to find Zack! Our theme …

Episode Notes X-Men fans hate Avengers fans. Maybe. I don't know, sometimes I think it's just fun to do jokes and it doesn't count as "punching down" when The Avengers are the most popular thing in movies. Also because they are fictional. Anywhere, here's some stories that make you understand why the X-Men fans hate Avengers fans. Ranked This Episo…

Episode Notes A couple times a year, an Exiles fan asks us to talk about comics that they like and we don't. No one is happy with this and yet we still do it.Ranked This Episode: Exiles #90-94 (Enemy of the Stars) Exiles Vol 3 #1-5 Exiles #28-30 (Unnatural Instincts) Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List! New content every week on Co…

Episode Notes Very famous author Emily Harding of Emma of 83rd Street joins us to talk about another Emma you might know. Emma Frost. Who has never actual read Jane Austen. Ranked This Episode: Emma Frost #7-12 (Mind Games) Dark X-Men: The Confession Generation X #55-56 (UXM 281 Redux) Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List! New conte…

Episode Notes Rogue man, we all know she was a villian before joining the X-Men but for people who only read X-Men (aka listeners of this podcast, I assume) they might not have seen everywhere she shows up as a baddie before this. We resolve that by describing the adventures of ROM, the greatest of The Spaceknights. Ranked This Episode: Uncanny X-M…

Episode Notes Welcome to the Attitude Era. Hope you survive the experience. Ranked this episode: Ultimate X-Men #75-78 (Cable) Ultimate Comics: X-Men #1-12 Ultimate Comics: X-Men #13-18 (Divided We Fall/United We Stand) Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List! New content every week on ComicsXF.com Follow Adam on Twitter @arthurstacy &…

Episode Notes Episode #300 of Battle Of The Atom brings an event foretold by the sages. Ranknarok: The Rereankening. Also Brian Michael Bendis stops by for a great discussion on his time on the X-Men titles. Re-Ranked This Episode: New Mutants Summer Special Inferno (X-Men/X-Factor) Astonishing X-Men #1-6 (Gifted) Check out the Battle of the Atom M…

Episode Notes What if I told you that the world of 2099 is a concept that often has diminishing returns? You would probably believe me. Anyway, this one is for the boys with the booming systems. Ranked This Episode: Timestorm 2009-2099: X-Men Spider-Man 2099 Exodus #5 X-Men 2099: Oasis Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List! New conte…

Episode Notes It's a Cyclops week where, let me tell you what, we forgot how annoying the M-Pox era was for all of us. Ranked This Episode: Cyclops (2010) #1 Champions vol 3 #5 (War Of The Realms) All New X-Men vol 2 #1-3 (The Ghosts Of Cyclops) Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List! New content every week on ComicsXF.com Follow Adam…

Episode Notes While editing this episode, Adam made a list of the stuff Zack trash talks in it: Elon Musk Back to the Future All 80s Movies Vision All of Post-Romita Sr Spider-Man Nick Spencer Stefano Caselli Pre-Sienkewicz New Mutants Thunderbolts M-Pox That's why he's the Bad Boy Of X-Men Podcasting. Ranked this episode: Avengers World #9 New Mut…

Episode Notes The Dark Phoenix Saga is the defining story in X-Men, and no character is more impacted by it than Jean Grey. This episode asks, perchance, what if stories didn't think about it? Ranked This Episode: X-Men #28 (Devil In The House) X-Men First Class Vol 2 #1 (Job Shadow) Marvel Girl #1 Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking Li…

Episode Notes We return to 2099 with a vengeance. Unfortunately, we are beginning to understand why these books were canceled with a vengeance. An unexpected, and historic, episode. Ranked This Episode: X-Men 2099 #26-29 (City Of The Dead) X-Nation 2099 2099: World of Tomorrow Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List! New content every …

Episode Notes We once again enter the weird world of Legion and let me tell you what, the takes in this episode? They are smoking hot. Ranked: X-Men: Legacy #1-6 (Prodigal) X-Men: Legacy #251-253 (Lost Legions) Uncanny X-Men #254-255 (Muir Island X-Men) Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List! New content every week on ComicsXF.com Fol…

Episode Notes We're doing the Brood this time. It's the one where the Brood Queen was most likely to go to heaven. Ranked: X-Men Vs The Brood Astonishing X-Men #38,40,42 (Meanwhile) Cable vol 2 #16-20 Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List! New content every week on ComicsXF.com Follow Adam on Twitter @arthurstacy & never try to find …

Episode Notes This one is about Iceman and, as promised, we make an insufferable amount of ice puns.Ranked This Episode: Iceman Vol 2 Astonishing X-Men #62-65 Bizarre Adventure #27 Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List! New content every week on ComicsXF.com Follow Adam on Twitter @arthurstacy & never try to find Zack! Our theme musi…