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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.103 - Hair Under There Jul 22, 2019

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Welcome to Let's Talk Bill The Lobster. This is your weekly podcast where we talk about how great Bill The Lobster is.

Bill is great. All the time.

All the time. Bill is great.

Ranked this episode:

Fallen Angels
NYX: No Way Home
Moon Girl & Devil Dinosaur #17

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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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Ep.102 - Intimidating Energy Jul 15, 2019

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This week we recommend a bunch of media and also talk about X-Men!

Ranked this episode:

X-Men: Colossus Bloodline
Marvel Comics Presents #10-17 (Colossus: God's Country)
Uncanny X-Men #540-543 (Fear Itself)

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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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Ep.101 - Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead But For Battle Of The Atom Jul 08, 2019

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We brought in Harvard poetry professor Stephanie Burt to school us on Kitty Pryde. There is capital "S" Subtext.

Ranked This Episode:

Kitty Pryde & Wolverine
Excalibur #31-34 (Girls School From Heck)
All-New Doop

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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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Ep.100 - 💯: Age Of The Atom Jul 01, 2019

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Enter The Age Of The Atom as we try to prevent a dark future.

Please do not spoil this for anyone!

Ranked this episode:

New Mutants #98-100 (The Beginning of the End)
X-Men v2 #100-102 (Revolutions)
Exiles #100

Special thanks to Charlie, Chris, Luke, and Matt for lending their voices to this event!

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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.

Interstitial music by Adam Reck

Previously On music was Crystal Kingdom by Griffin McElroy

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

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Ep.99 - Legion Quest Jun 24, 2019

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We celebrate the return of Legion with the return of Matt Sibley, Zack's former co-host with a chip on his shoulder. Hopefully nothing bad happens because of this.

Ranked this episode:

New Mutants #26-28 (Legion)
X-Men: Legacy #19-24 (For We Are Many)
Legion Quest

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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.

Ending music was Crystal Kingdom by Griffin McElroy

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

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Ep.98 - Little Trash Boy Jun 17, 2019

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Proteus is a bad child but he has been in good stories. We talk about them this week, as one does.

Uncanny X-Men #125-128 (Proteus)
X-Men Legacy #231-233 (Necrosha)
Ultimate X-Men #16-19 (World Tour)

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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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Ep.97 - Pocket-Sized Glob Herman Jun 10, 2019

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What's up you cool babies? We've got some Weezer content, some Muppets content, and some X-Babies content. Who could ask for more? Maybe a song or post credits scene? We got that too!

Ranked This Episode:

X-Babies
Giant-Sized Little Marvel: AvX
Pint-Sized X-Babies: Murderama

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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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Ep.96 - A Phoenix Force Of Our Own with Jay Edidin Jun 03, 2019

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This X-Men Podcast could be worth $2500 to you. That is, if that's what you value an epic team-up between the BotA Boys and Jay Edidin of Jay & Miles X-Plain The X-Men. Anyway, there is a movie you all are going to see against you're better judgement, and we are going to talk about the story that movie is based on.

It's finally time for Dark Phoenix!

Ranked This Episode:

Dark Phoenix Saga (Uncanny #129-137)
Classic X-Men #43
What If vol 2 #32-33

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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

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

Ep.95 - Cyclops Has More Than Two Problems May 27, 2019

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Cyclops, just, boy howdy does he have some problems. We love our sweet anxiety riddled son but, man, he needs to maybe talk to someone. Maybe that someone could be you? (Cyclops is fictional, please do not talk to him unless you have put on your fiction suit).

Ranked This Episode:

Uncanny X-Men vol 2 #19 (The Passion Of Scott Summers)
Uncanny X-Men #391 (Dad)
Champions #12

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New content every week on XavierFiles.com

Follow Zack and Adam on Twitter @Xavier Files and @arthurstacy!

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.94 - All-New, All-Different Battle Of The Atom May 20, 2019

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We're back, we're different, and we're talking about Bishop. But in a very different way, we aren't talking about Bishop because we picked 3 stories he is only nominally the star of. Oops!

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