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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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Ep.221 - Down The Rabbit Hole Oct 25, 2021

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Happy Halloween, we talk about some sufficiently spooky stories. Then someone gets distracted and talks about weird Marvel continuity for too long. It's a great event.

Ranked This Episode:

Inferno (Secret Wars)
Nova #22
Generation X #22

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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

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Ep.220 - Spider-Man 2099 Shirt Oct 18, 2021

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We enter the world of Mutant X, and by that we mean we get distracted by other weird Marvel stuff of the turn of the century.

Ranked this episode:

X-Factor #145-149
Mutant X #1-3
Mutant X: Origins #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.219 - I Don't Like My Brother Either with Vishal Gulapalli Oct 11, 2021

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Everyone loves Vulcan. He's the third Summers brother and no one has ever disliked how clunkly he was put into the story and then used as a big deal in space for a while. Anyway our buddy Vishal is here to set up straight! Ranked This Episode:

Rise & Fall Of The Shi'Ar Empire
Emperor Vulcan
War Of Kings

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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.218 - Wolverine In Armor Oct 04, 2021

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This week it is all Wolverine all the time. If anyone makes those jokes where we talk about Logan and we all know we are talking about Logan and you pretend we are talking about Laura, I will be sad and tired.

Ranked this episode:

All-New Wolverine: Four Sisters
All-New Wolverine: Enemy Of The State II
All-New Wolverine: Orphans Of X

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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.217 - Thinking Vertically with Declan Shalvey Sep 27, 2021

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Cartoonist Declan Shalvey is here with a vengeance to talk about vertical scroll comics and his just completed X-Men Unlimited story.

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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.216 - Talkin' Bout My Generation Sep 20, 2021

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You know we won't all f f f f fade away. It's Generation X spectacular as the team gets mashed up into all sorts of detective comics.

Ranked This Episode:

Gen13/Generation X
Generation X/Gen13
Generation Hex

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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.215 - What If We Read What If? Sep 13, 2021

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We totally planned this What If...? episode around the TV show and this isn't a coincidence that we are talking about 3 X-Men What If...? stories today.

Ranked This Episode:

What If vol 2 #13 (Professor X was the Juggernaut)
What If vol 2 #46-47 (Cable Killed the X-Men/Magneto Took Over The USA)
What If vol 2 #77 (Legion Killed Magneto)

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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.214 - Metal As Heck Sep 06, 2021

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We have to go back to The Age Of Apocalypse and accept that it rules so much and we have no choice but to stan. We also make some of the weirdest structural decision about Ranking we have ever done.

Ranked This Episode:

X-Men: Alpha/Omega
Astonishing X-Men (AoA)
Amazing X-Men (AoA)

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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.213 - Wolverine Kills Aug 30, 2021

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We're a Wolverine podcast now and we promise this isn't a bit. It isn't a joke. It is just us covering times Wolverine has killed literal thousands of people.

Ranked This Episode:

Wolverine #20-31 (Enemy Of The State)
Wolverine #69-71 (Savage Land)
Wolverine #10-14 (Wolverine's Revenge)

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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.212 - Hornheaders Aug 23, 2021

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Hear us X-Fans, no longer are we the podcast you once know. We are hellfire and guilt incarnate Now & Forever We are The Hornheaders!

Here's the thing, we're a Daredevil podcast now. Thusly, we are going to cover a whole one story with Matt in it. I am sure this will make both X-Men fans and Daredevil fans very happy with our decision making.

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