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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.33 - A Lot Of Body Horror with Zac Thompson & Lonnie Nadler Mar 19, 2018

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This week on Battle Of The Atom we travel to Interview City and discuss CABLE with writers Zac Thompson and Lonnie Nadler

We talk about loving X-Man

Finding a new take on a convoluted character

Writing Cable in the age of Brolin

Explaining Stryfe to an 8-year-old

And the utterly fascinating debut that is COME INTO ME

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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.32 - Gay Twitter Had My Back with Sina Grace Mar 12, 2018

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All right stop Go on subscribe and listen Iceman's back with a brand new edition Sina kept the plot going tightly Then he flows those dad jokes both daily and nightly Will it ever stop? Yo, You already know Crank up this pod to the max, make it blow To the extreme, BotA isn't a scandal Light up you commute, this guest is more than you can handle

Ice, Ice Baby

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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.31 - Nobody Get Rid Of Shogo with Christina Strain Mar 05, 2018

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Generation X may be over but Christian Strain is here with us to go over all the nitty gritty details of it. We talk about Jubilee, Glob, Quire, X-Man, and much more!

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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.30 - Are We Pogs? Feb 26, 2018

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Welcome to an edit free episode of this podcast where we rank Spider-Man stories all day long. We have been doing this for 30 weeks now so none of this should come as a suprise to you. We do whatever a Spider can, as you well know.

Ranked this Episode:

Spider-Man Team-Up #1
Web of Spider-Man Annual #2
Spider-Man & The X-Men #1-2

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Our theme music is from the PSX Spider-Man game that I played a bunch on a demo disk.

Cover art is by Adam Reck after Dave Cockrum

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Ep.29 - Made of Yellow Cornflakes Feb 19, 2018

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You know about the Phalanx? Well we sure do now and we spend some time talking about them. The good news is you get some hot beats from Retcon X at the end.

Ranked This Episode:

Phalanx Covenant: Generation Next
Phalanx Covenant: Life Signs
Phalanx Covenant: Final Sanction

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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.28 - King Tut Transformer Feb 12, 2018

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An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience. We talk about stairs a suprising amount on this episode. I've given up taking Episode Notes seriously, I doubt many of you read these and if you do, you probably appriciate me being so on brand.

Ranked This Episode

Uncanny X-Men vol 2 #14-17
Further Adventures of Cyclops & Phoenix
Ultimate X-Men #46-49 (The Tempest)

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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.27 - xXShattybuns69Xx with Charlie Davis Feb 05, 2018

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This week we have a Patreon supported special thanks to The Young Ones co-host Charlie Davis! We talk about Shatterstar, Rictor, and more Shatterstar. It is very on brand for one of us.

Charlie

It is on brand for them, not us.

Ranked this episode

X-Force #19-24 (Assult on Greymalkin)
X-Factor #207-213 (Happenings in Vegas)
X-Force #59-61 (The Shatterstar Saga)

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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.26 - Rockin' One Of Those Great AoA Face Tattoos Jan 29, 2018

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We follow up with that fun Kelly Thompson interview to talk about the stories that inspire her. Also face tattoos, Savage Land bikinis, and a possibly perfect story.

Ranked this episode:

Uncanny X-Men #273-#277 (Savage Land/Shi'ar)
Gambit & The X-Ternals #1-#4
Astonishing X-Men vol 3 #1-#6 (Gifted)

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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.25 - Episode 25.INH - The Only Creator To Block Me On Twitter Jan 22, 2018

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Man I just need a break don't you? Maybe a trip to the mall or a couple of cold ones with the boyz? Well luckily we have 3 X-Men stories this week about just that.

Ranked this episode:

Uncanny X-Men #245 (Men!)
Uncanny X-Men #244 (Ladies Night)
Uncanny X-Men #15.INH

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New content every week on XavierFiles.com

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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.24 - Kelly Thompson And The 20 Year Grudge Against Lila Cheney Jan 15, 2018

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ROGUE & GAMBIT writer Kelly Thompson joins the BotA boys to talk about both Rogue AND Gambit. We also talk about the craft of comics, relationships, and how to make continuity work for you! Make sure to pick up ROGUE & GAMBIT because it is very good!

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!