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**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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NYCC 2026 Oct 19, 2026

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It's our NYCC 2026 Special featuring artist alley chats with Ben Percy, Dan Panosian, Matteo Della Fonte, Federico Vicentini, David Messina, Netho Diaz and Mario Santoro! You know who isn't in this episode? Zack, who was at home not at NYCC.

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Our theme music is Junk Factory from the X-Men Arcade Game by Seiichi Fukami, Yuji Takenouchi, Junya Nakano, and Ayako Hashimoto.

Cover art is by Adam Reck after Dave Cockrum with logo design by Mikey Zee

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Floor Babies Oct 12, 2026

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This episode is dedicated to the memory of our friend Bobby Twoguys. He is still alive, but we're just thinking about him. Specifically thinking about how to get a rise out of that scoundrel.

Ranked This Episode:

X-Men Misfits
Way of X
X-Factor #250 - 256 (Hell on Earth War)

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Follow Adam on Twitter @arthurstacy & never try to find Zack!

Our theme music is Junk Factory from the X-Men Arcade Game by Seiichi Fukami, Yuji Takenouchi, Junya Nakano, and Ayako Hashimoto.

Cover art is by Adam Reck after Dave Cockrum with logo design by Mikey Zee

If you want to support the show make sure you rate and review the show or check out our Patreon!

Marvel Nights With Jonathan Hickman Oct 05, 2026

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This week writer Jonathan Hickman (House of X, Secret Wars, Ultimate Spider-Man, East of West) joins us to talk about Midnight X-Men, his new horror infused book out October 7th. He talks about his approach to Vampires, the horror of late-stage capitalism, the minimalization of X-Men, the unexpected ending of his Ultimate Universe, how him and Alan Moore are alike, the impending AI apocalypse, the "great man" theory, and (of course) the ending of his time on X-Men.

Y'all, it's a good one.

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New content every week on ComicsXF.com

Follow Adam on Twitter @arthurstacy & never try to find Zack!

Our theme music is Junk Factory from the X-Men Arcade Game by Seiichi Fukami, Yuji Takenouchi, Junya Nakano, and Ayako Hashimoto.

Cover art is by Adam Reck after Dave Cockrum with logo design by Mikey Zee

If you want to support the show make sure you rate and review the show or check out our Patreon!

A Thingee And A Nutt Sep 28, 2026

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It's a Longshot one. We all like Longshot in theory but do we like him in practice? I oft ponder this. The man has an iconic, consistent pedigree but has it served him and the greater X-Men universe well? I don't know man, but it keeps me up at night.

Ranked This Episode:

Longshot vol 2
Marvel Fanfare vol 2 #4-5
Ultimate X-Men #54-57 (The Most Dangerous Game)

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New content every week on ComicsXF.com

Follow Adam on Twitter @arthurstacy & never try to find Zack!

Our theme music is Junk Factory from the X-Men Arcade Game by Seiichi Fukami, Yuji Takenouchi, Junya Nakano, and Ayako Hashimoto.

Cover art is by Adam Reck after Dave Cockrum with logo design by Mikey Zee

If you want to support the show make sure you rate and review the show or check out our Patreon!

Amuse-Bouche Sep 21, 2026

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Please we are begging you, join the Patreon and listen to us talk about the X-Men movies. We're all out of ideas and shoveling things in front of you asking "do you like this?" It's been 9 years, we have no idea how to grow into a more commercially viable podcast. Possibly we should have made the show more accessible? But in reality, we are much like the comics we are discussing today, not for the consumption of mass audiences even if we desperately want to be.

Ranked This Episode:

X-Men Movie Prequel
TV Guide July 15-21 2000
X-Men the Movie Iconnect Special #1

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New content every week on ComicsXF.com

Follow Adam on Twitter @arthurstacy & never try to find Zack!

Our theme music is Junk Factory from the X-Men Arcade Game by Seiichi Fukami, Yuji Takenouchi, Junya Nakano, and Ayako Hashimoto.

Cover art is by Adam Reck after Dave Cockrum with logo design by Mikey Zee

If you want to support the show make sure you rate and review the show or check out our Patreon!

Let's Talk Crystals Sep 14, 2026

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This is not a new Twitter fan account for the messiest Inhuman, but instead just a podcast episode where we try and unravel which crystal is on Storm's shirt.

Ranked This Episode:

X-Men v2 #60-61
X-Men: Worlds Apart #1-4
X-Men v3 #30-37 (Proto-Mutants)

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New content every week on ComicsXF.com

Follow Adam on Twitter @arthurstacy & never try to find Zack!

Our theme music is Junk Factory from the X-Men Arcade Game by Seiichi Fukami, Yuji Takenouchi, Junya Nakano, and Ayako Hashimoto.

Cover art is by Adam Reck after Dave Cockrum with logo design by Mikey Zee

If you want to support the show make sure you rate and review the show or check out our Patreon!

Kevin Eleven Sep 07, 2026

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The thing about Joe Casey is that he figured out how to make actual money so he can just make comics for fun. Would that all of comics be this lucky.

Ranked This Episode:

Uncanny X-Men #400, 407-409
X-Men: Children of the Atom #1-6
Weapon X-Men vol 2 #1-5

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New content every week on ComicsXF.com

Follow Adam on Twitter @arthurstacy & never try to find Zack!

Our theme music is Junk Factory from the X-Men Arcade Game by Seiichi Fukami, Yuji Takenouchi, Junya Nakano, and Ayako Hashimoto.

Cover art is by Adam Reck after Dave Cockrum with logo design by Mikey Zee

If you want to support the show make sure you rate and review the show or check out our Patreon!

Reverse Reverse Aug 31, 2026

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Cormac McCarthy was quoted writing All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes. But he didn't use quotation marks because he wants to be difficult.

Ranked This Episode:

Wolverine: Weapon X #16
Nightcrawler Vol 4 #7
X-Men Unlimited vol 1 #36

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New content every week on ComicsXF.com

Follow Adam on Twitter @arthurstacy & never try to find Zack!

Our theme music is Junk Factory from the X-Men Arcade Game by Seiichi Fukami, Yuji Takenouchi, Junya Nakano, and Ayako Hashimoto.

Cover art is by Adam Reck after Dave Cockrum with logo design by Mikey Zee

If you want to support the show make sure you rate and review the show or check out our Patreon!

Adam Finally Reads Civil War Aug 17, 2026

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In this episode, Adam finally reads Civil War

Ranked This Episode:

Civil War: X-Men
Wolverine vol 3 #42-48 (Vendetta)
X-Factor vol 3 #8-9 (Civil War)

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New content every week on ComicsXF.com

Follow Adam on Twitter @arthurstacy & never try to find Zack!

Our theme music is Junk Factory from the X-Men Arcade Game by Seiichi Fukami, Yuji Takenouchi, Junya Nakano, and Ayako Hashimoto.

Cover art is by Adam Reck after Dave Cockrum with logo design by Mikey Zee

If you want to support the show make sure you rate and review the show or check out our Patreon!

Kokomo Aug 10, 2026

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Man that song sucks, I'm listening to it right now. Possibly this is the only time I've deliberately listened to Kokomo. This is what happens when you get into a fight with Brian Wilson.

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