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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!

Latest Episodes:

Ep.270 - Our Flag Means Death Oct 10, 2022

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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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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

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Ep.269 - Jorts! Oct 03, 2022

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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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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!

Ep.268 - Giant Spider Baby Sep 26, 2022

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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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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!

Ep.267 - Grindhouse Of X with Leah Williams Sep 19, 2022

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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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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!

Ep.266 - A Good Death Sep 12, 2022

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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)

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 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!

Ep.265 - Sparkly Crystal Diamond Claws Sep 05, 2022

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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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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!

Ep.264 - Dinosaur Hunting (For The Right Reasons) Aug 29, 2022

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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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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!

Ep.263 - A Square Of Raw Power Aug 22, 2022

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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 Hunt)
Cable #59-62 (Nemesis Contract)
Cable #-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!

Ep.262 - Sheath Our Blades Aug 15, 2022

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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)

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 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!

Ep.261 - That's A Baby Aug 08, 2022

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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.

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