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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.73 - Battle Of The Atom Holiday Spectacular Dec 24, 2018

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So this is X-Mas? And what have you done? Well Mr. Judgemental, we made a podcast. It is the holiday spectacular for 2018 and it has stuff!

Ranked this episode:

Uncanny X-Men #98-100
Uncanny X-Men #230
Generation X #4

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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

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Ep.72 - Actual Biblical Marvel Comics Cain Dec 17, 2018

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What is love?

Baby don't hurt me.

Don't hurt me.

No more.

Ranked this episode:

Pryde & Wisdom
Rogue & Gambit
Witchblade/Wolverine

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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

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

Ep.71 - Thinking Of The Children Dec 10, 2018

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Teenagers scare the friggin' shoot out of me! That's why we dedicated an entire episode about it. A lot of children do get murdered and we are very sorry about that.

Ranked This Episode:

X-Campus
New Mutants #21 (Slumber Party)
New X-Men #20-27 (Childhood's End/Crusade)

Go buy the Guide to X-Ceptional Baking

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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

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

Ep.70 - Magneto But Good And Young And Hot Dec 03, 2018

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Good evening my Acolytes! We talk about you today. We also renamed you. This will probably go away by the next time we record so indulge me for now.

Also, the last X-Man Update(?)

Ranked this episode:

Uncanny X-Men #300
X-Men Legacy #208-210 (From Genesis to Revelations)
Magneto vol 1

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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

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

Ep.69 - Web-Head Waffles And Other Assorted Spiders-Men with Dan Gvozden Nov 26, 2018

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We realized we were woefully unprepared to to talk about Spider-Man so we brought in a ringer. Dan Gvozden from Amazing Spider-Talk is here to help us through the details of that Spectacular Spidered-Man!

Ranked this episode:

X-Men/Spider-Man
Spider-Man vs Wolverine
Amazing Spider-Man #92

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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

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

Ep.68 - Thanks For The Sewer Stories Jerry! Nov 19, 2018

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We are talking about Morlocks today. They should team up with the ninja turtles. Just saying.

Ranked this episode:

The Mutant Massacre
Uncanny X-Men #291-293 (Morlocks Take Manhatten)
Uncanny X-Men Annual #18

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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

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

Ep.67 - Acts Of Friendship Nov 12, 2018

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In a special comics podcast crossover, we are joined by Chris Eddleman of Chrises On Infinite Earths and Dan Grote of WMQ&A. Instead of ranking comics, we rank friendships! It is a blast!

Make sure you check out all the podcasts participating!

Chrises on Infinite Earths: An all-ages comics podcast that delves into the biggest comic book crossover events that you need to know.
Multiversal Q: Your guide to the comic book multiverse, now in podcast form!
Play Comics: A podcast that examines video games based on comics properties.
The Young Ones: Teen superheroes, comics and why we love them.
WMQ&A: the official podcast of the WMQ Comics website.

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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

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

Ep.66 - What You Guys Call Deep Cut I Used To Call Tuesday with Fabian Nicieza Nov 05, 2018

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Incrediably excited to share this one with you folks. You might know him from X-Force, X-Men, Cable & Deadpool. It is legendary comicbook creator Fabian Nicieza. We talk about so many cool things like Shatterstar, Adam-X the X-Treme, and a secret Gambit project that the internet has no record of. Frankly, it is a wild interview.

Check out Fabian's new comic Outrage! It's free!

Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List!

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

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

Ep.65 - Put Dracula Back Together Oct 29, 2018

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Happy Spooktober everyone! We are celebrating the creepy month and the eve of All-Saints Day by talking about, well, Draculas. They are spoopy and drink blood. A perfect combination for these trying times. Please celebrate the dark holy month with us. Hail Satan!

Ranked This Episode:

X-Men vol 3 #1-6 (Curse Of The Mutants)
What If...? #37 (What If Wolverine Was Lord Of The Vampires During Inferno)
Generation X #63 (Monet Vampure Hunter)

Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List!

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

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

Ep.64 - Our Mesh Shirt Overlord w/Trent Seely Oct 22, 2018

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This week Trent Seely from Continuity Nod joins us to talk about a lot of stories. Like, we have too many stories and we needed a 3rd host to even start to get through this! You are getting your money's worth on this one folks.

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