Episodes

6d ago

Episode Notes Een la yair of ur laird déux thousand deux Marvel writairs absulute-lee loved makeng nu charactairs to throw at people and 'ope zey stik. Vairy fu of zém did. But zere was un and of curse 'e's francais, why do you think 'e 'as zis ootrajéous accént? Ranked zis episode: X-Treme X-Men #10-16 (Invasion) Uncanny X-Men #399 (For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge) New X-Men #128-130 (Fantomex) 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 !

Dec 8

Episode Notes In 2007, the creative team of J. Michael Straczynski and Joe Quesada had children's pull-ups character Spider-Man sell his marriage to the Satan Mephisto in exchange for the life of his dear Aunt May, an octogenarian who lived a full life that was marred near its end by nearly weekly health issues and who was assumed dead at the start of Straczynski's run. Much like me with my own parent's divorce, losers who like comics have NEVER gotten over it. Ranked This Episode: Spider-Man vol 1 #15 (Mutant Factor!) Marvel Adventures Spider-Man #59 Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows Vol 2 #6-7 (School Daze!) 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 !

Dec 1

Episode Notes We love Nightcrawer, we love all types of blue people, we also love Dr. Anna Peppard who is not blue. Ranked This Episode: Excalibur #16-17 (Warlord Kurt) Exiles v1 #41-42 (A Nocturne's Tale) X-Men First Class: The High Hand 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 !

Nov 24

Episode Notes You'll never go in the water again, but maybe you'll go back in the podcast again and talk about Loa (Alani Ryan). Ranked This Episode: Classic X-Men #13 Namor: The First Mutant #5 Deadpool vol 7 #6 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 !

Nov 17

Episode Notes Trent Renzor once said "I want to feel you from the inside" and the gothy romantic she is, Moira took that seriously in her tenth life. Ranked This Episode: What If? #75 (What if Blink hadn't died?) Generation X #71-75 (Four Days) X Deaths of Wolverine 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 !

Nov 10

Episode Notes Zack gets mad at people who take a man named Victor Von Doom too seriously. Adam does his absolute best to save the podcast from neurogas. Ranked This Episode: Uncanny X-Men #145-147 Uncanny X-Men #197 Super-Villain Team-Up #14, Champions #16 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 !

Nov 2

Episode Notes It's a lovely morning in the X-Mansion, and you are a horrible mutant. Ranked This Episode: Secret Wars II #5 X-Factor #12 New Mutants vol 4 #3-4,6 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 !

Oct 27

Episode Notes Happy Halloween everybody. We have stories about corpses. Also economics? Ranked This Episode: New Mutants #64 (The Resurrection on Cypher) Marvel Comics Presents #90-97 (Ghost Rider & Cable: Servants of the Dead) Gambit vol 4 #7-9 (Voodoo Economics) 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 !

Oct 20

Episode Notes Look folks we are 30 or 40 years old, sometimes it takes 3 weeks to record an episode about 5 total issues of comics. This is what life is for us who choose this life. Ranked This Episode: Team X / Team 7 Wolverine/Deathblow #1-2 Shi/Wolverine 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 !

Sep 29

Episode Notes Sometimes, X-Men comics have something to say. No one said they should say it, but darn it, the X-Men are going to say something. Ranked This Episode: New Mutants #45 (Larry Bodine) Muties Generation Hope #9 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 !

Sep 22

Episode Notes The Editor in Chief of Marvel Comics once did an elaborate deception, pretending to be a Japanese Manga writer named Akira Yoshida, in order to skirt internal rules and write some of the biggest weeb comics in Marvel's history. Everyone involved still gets mad when you bring it up because the consequence was more or less the dude taking a year off to write a comic about how much sex his always has. But look, what are you going to do but laugh? It's not like we live in a country trying to stifle free speech. Ranked This Episode: Wolverine: Soultaker X-Men: Kitty Pryde: Shadow And Flame Astonishing Tales: Wolverine/Punisher 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 !

Sep 15

Episode Notes We’re talking about X-stories from the mid-80s and early 90s that incorporate the incomprehensible idea that anything bad could ever happen to the Twin Towers. Ranked This Episode: X-Force #3-4, Spider-Man #16 (Sabotage) Uncanny X-Men #189 (Two Girls Out To Have Fun) Marvel Graphic Novel #17 (Revenge of the Living Monolith) 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 !

Sep 8

Episode Notes I wonder what M. Night Shyamalan thought about the X-Men character Marrow. I have to assume he knows about her. Perhaps he has thoughts. Ranked This Episode: X-Force vol 4 #1-6 (Dirty/Tricks) Spider-Man/Marrow #1 X-Men Unlimited Infinity Comic 75-79 (Unbreakable) 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 !

Sep 1

Episode Notes Sometimes, we wonder if we should change the podcast to be something more palatable to general audiences. But listen, if the X-Men have taught us anything, it's to be weird little freaks, so we are going to continue to do an X-Men podcast that is increasingly about things you wouldn't normally get in an X-Men podcast. Ranked This Episode: Spellbound #4 Mutant Misadventures of Cloak and Dagger #4 Ka-Zar the Savage #10-12 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 !

Aug 18

Episode Notes Do you think I mind that Walter Disney doesn't approve of some of these comics? That his estate isn't entitled to the sweat of the worker's brow? None of these comics are officially sanctioned, and who cares? Ranked This Episode: John Allison's Kitty & Wolverine comic Valentine's Syrin comic Max Wittert Jean & Scott 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 !

Aug 11

Episode Notes In which we understand how much Cable's favorite Everclear song is "Father of Mine" Ranked This Episode: X-Men v5 #1-2 Uncanny X-Men #310 Cable & X-Force #6-9 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 !

Aug 4

Episode Notes Clowns are so cool, I wish they were real... Ranked This Episode: Obnoxio The Clown Vs The X-Men Marvel Two-In-One #76 Wolverine & The X-Men #21-23 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 !

Jul 21

Episode Notes 400 episodes and nearly 8 years later, Zack and Adam return to some of their earliest episodes, Days of Future Past style, to right the wrongs that led them to this point. They also answer some listener questions. Re-ranked this episode: Uncanny X-Men #268 (Madripoor Nights) X-Men: Worst X-Man Ever Battle Of The Atom 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 !

Jul 14

Episode Notes The wild thing about looking back on comics is how much they are colored by what was happening when you were originally reading them. In retrospect, perhaps things are different. Anyway the optics on pitching a book as religious police was still an amazing unforced error. Ranked This Episode: Legion of X #1-5 Wolverine: Dangerous Games X-Men: Legacy #7-9 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 !

Jul 7

Episode Notes Sabretooth has a costume with a lion's mane sewn into it. Wrestler Tyler Mane played Sabretooth in a movie. Are these facts related to this episode? Ranked This Episode: Sabretooth War Sabretooth vol 1 Wolverine #10 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 !

Jun 23

Episode Notes Chris Hassan from AiPT's X-Men Monday joins us for a journey through the last 300 installments of his column and what folks were talking about for all that time. This episode also doubles as a weird history lesson on/therapy session what it was like to be a figure of minor notoriety in X-Men fandom for the last decade or so. Ranked This Episode: Return Of Wolverine Gwenpool Strikes Back X-Men vol 6 #19-21 (Lord of the Brood) 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 !

Jun 16

Episode Notes Do the children even remember Wizard Magazine these days? I mean, to be fair, Zack only knows of it, but was never of it. Luckily, the children all remember Skin; isn't that right children? Ranked This Episode: Generation X v1 #17 (X-Cutioner) Generation X v1 #20-21 (Howard The Duck) Generation X v1 #1/2 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 !

Jun 9

Episode Notes Comic fans oft wonder "who would win". Those folks need to touch grass. Ranked This Episode: Contest Of Champions II AVX: Vs Marvel vs Capcom Fighting Collection Arcade Classics 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 !

Jun 2

Episode Notes I'll be real with you, sometimes there's a request that really throws us for a loop. This is one of them. Ranked This Episode: X-Factor #63-64 (Cyburai) Generation X #29-31 (Operation: Zero Tollerance) Alpha Flight #107 (X-Factor) 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 !

May 26

Episode Notes 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 !

May 19

Episode Notes I'm not mad, just disappointed at the society you chose to build. I thought we raised you better than this? Ranked This Episode: Immortal X-Men #1-4 District X #7-12 (Underground) Ultimate Comics: X-Men #18.1-22 (Reservation X) 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 !

May 12

Episode Notes This episode is about Iron Man, but more than that, it's about the turn of the century Evangelical crossover literary sensation Left Behind . Ranked This Episode: Iron Man Annual #8 Tales of Suspense #49 Sentinel Squad O N E 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 !

May 5

Episode Notes What do we say to the god of death? We ask them what Dani Moonstar is like and if death thinks she would be our friend and also proud of us. Ranked This Episode: New Mutants vol 1 #41 New Mutants vol 3 #11 (Siege) Chris Claremont Anniversary Special #1 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 !

Apr 28

Episode Notes Dang ol' Magneto, man, talkin' 'bout that next generation of mutant kids? Run aroun' using dang ol' magnets to reflec' people's mind beams and talkin' 'bout mothervine and all 'dat. Zippin' round like vrroom-bing-bop-screech-pow man. It's a, a real weird school man. Ranked This Episode: New Mutants #35 (Headmaster Magneto) New Mutants #75 (King of the Hill!) X-Men Blue #23-28 (Cry Havok) 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 !

Apr 21

Episode Notes Flashback with us to yesteryear as we get nostalgic about comics getting nostalgic about other comics. David Harper from SKTCHD and Off Panel is here to help us out! Ranked This Episode: Wolverine: First Class #5 X-Men Legends #10 Generation X # -1 Make sure you check out his new SKTCHD Book 2024 on sale now! 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 !

Apr 7

Episode Notes In a 2012 episode of the hit television series "Bob's Burgers" the titular Mr. Burgers has a nightmare where, instead of being a small business owner slinging underappreciated patties, he is a cog in the corporate machine, laughing as his co-workers doing the Borat voice. In a 2025 episode of the 3rd most popular X-Men podcast "Battle Of The Atom" the titular Adam lives a nightmare where his co-host continues to do the Borat voice decades after it stopped being funny. Ranked This Episode: X-Men v5 #6 (I Want My Wife Back) Wolverine #62-65 (Get Mystique) Dream's End 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 !

Mar 31

Episode Notes It's time for everyone's favorite game, Name That External! It's the game you try and remember who the Externals are. The fun thing about this game is that we all lose! Ranked This Episode: X-Men Unlimited Infinity Comic #35-40 (Eany Come Home) X-Men Unlimited Infinity Comic #80-85 (Unofficial X-Men) X-Men Unlimited Infinity Comic #121-142 (Fall of X) 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 !

Mar 24

Episode Notes In times of economic uncertainty, many speculative investors will transition a larger portion of their assets into gold. This is generally a weird plan based on the fact that gold is nice to look at. For more in things that are nice to look at, here's Art Adams comics. Ranked This Episode: Uncanny X-Men Annual #10 (Mojo, Deaged X-Men) X-Factor v1 #41-42 (Alchemy Art Adams) Uncanny X-Men #12 (Evolutionary War) 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 !

Mar 17

Episode Notes There is nothing I could say here that would help explain the life and times of Rob Liefeld more than reading literally every word he has ever said about Major X. Ranked This Episode: Wolverine #154-155 (All Along The Watchtower) Major X 1-6 + 0 X-Force: Killshot Anniversary Special 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 !

Mar 10

Episode Notes Sometimes, listeners tune in for insightful commentary on X-Men comics and the world at large. Other times Zack and Adam are giggling so much that they can't actually complete a joke. This isn't one of those smart episodes. What is smart though? Supporting friend of the show Vita Ayala after their family was displaced by a fire. Ranked This Episode: New Mutants #52 Mystic Arcana: Magik #1 New Mutants vol 4 #25-28 (The Labors of Magik) 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 !

Mar 3

Episode Notes We love Meggan, here's an episode. Also Anna is here and isn't that great! Ranked this Episode: Mighty World Of Marvel #14-16 Excalibur #28 Captain Britain and MI13 Annual #1 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 !

Feb 24

Episode Notes RIP Zack "The Bad Boy Of X-Men Podcasting" Jenkins. He leaves behind a loving co-host and many people who would consider him an enemy because of jokes he made about X-Men. Ranked This Episode: Excalibur #1-2 Wolverine #102.5 Excalibur Vol 4 #7-8 (Warwolves) Also in the episode: Greg Land, Marc Guggenheim, Ben Percy, Craig Kyle, David Pepose, Chris Condon, Ryan Stegman, Zeb Wells and David Nakyama 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 !

Feb 10

Episode Notes Rivers Cumo once said "I wanna go back, back to the shack, back to the Strat with the lightning strap" and we echo that message back going back to our roots for a 1000th story celebration about the stories the occurred at both the birth of the podcast and the birth of us. Rivers Cumo also once said "Watching Grunge leg drop New Jack through a press table" and thought that was a good enough song lyric to put on his best record so maybe he doesn't know what he's talking about. Ranked This Episode: X-Men Gold #9 (Kitty Goes To Washington) Alf #44 Dazzler #1 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 !

Feb 3

Episode Notes When TV shows cared about Nielsen ratings, ad rates would be set based on how well a show performed during a very specific portion of the year called "Sweeps Week". To goose the system, shows would bring out all the stops with big episodes, guest stars, all of that. We honor that tradition as the road to 1000 stories comes to a close with Cerebro host Connor Goldsmith joining us to talk about Polaris. Ranked This Episode: Magneto: Dark Seduction X-Men #49-52 (Polaris 1st App) Uncanny X-Men Vol 1 #249-250 (Polaris & Zaladane) 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 !

Jan 27

Episode Notes No further explanation needed. Ranked This Episode: X-Men v5 #10-11 (Empyre) Wolverine & The X-Men Annual #1 Maximum Security: Dangerous Planet & Uncanny X-Men #387 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 !

Jan 20

Episode Notes This episode is all about Gambit. Why? I mean, that's quite the important question. Friedrich Nietzsche said "He who has a why to live can bear almost any how." Of course, Nietzsche also said "The Superman is the meaning of the earth." and I remember just enough about that time he had blue electricity powers to use that as evidence to disagree with Nietzsche. So we must again ask why? And it all comes down to the truth that Adam and Zack will sell an hour of their lives for $5. As Nietzsche also said "The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it - what it costs us.” So the value of making us read bad turn of the century Gambit comics isn't really $5, it's an hour of enjoying the suffering of two dudes. And hey, Nietzsche also said "to live is to suffer" so ipso facto, this episode is all about Gambit so that we suffer. Thanks. Ranked This Episode: Gambit v3 #22-24 (New Son) Gambit & Bishop (Sons of the Atom) Gambit: From the Marvel Vault 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 !

Jan 13

Episode Notes Once upon a time, in the years before Xavier Files, Zack and his friend Thomas started an X-Men book club where the first thing they wanted to talk about was Mike Carey's X-Men work. This is then that domino meme that gets us to this very moment nearly a decade later. Ranked This Episode: X-Men: Legacy Annual #1, #228-230 (Devil at the Crossroads_)_ X-Men #194-196 (Primary Infection) X-Men: Manifest Destiny 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 !

Jan 6

Episode Notes When we think of icons, we think of them. They are X-Men characters whose names we would never confuse or mix up and certainly characters who should help Slingers sell more copies. Ranked This Episode Hellions #1-4 Slingers #9 Avengers #298-300 (Inferno) 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 !

Dec 30, 2024

Episode Notes In our post-truth world, it is sometimes difficult to discern what Magneto truly is. Is he a freedom fighter filled with righteous fury? A lunatic obsessed with supremacy? A kind shepherd for the next generation of his people? What this podcast posits, it that he is a South Beach yoga instructor, and you know we cited our sources. Ranked This Episode: Resurrection of Magneto Amazing Adventures #9-10 Vision and the Scarlet Witch #6 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 !

Dec 23, 2024

Episode Notes We don't have a friend or a guest named Kevin in this one. But we do have Christmas stories of VARIOUS quality. Someone help us escape from the holiday hellscape we have created for ourselves. Ranked This Episode: Uncanny X-Men Vol #192 (Fun 'n' Games) Marvel Holiday Special 2004 (X-Men X-Mas) Marvel Digital Holiday Special #1 (If the Fates Allow) 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 !

Dec 16, 2024

Episode Notes Guess who had to resist screeching the entire episode? Hint: it's the host who, for reasons unknown to himself, spends a shocking amount of this episode defending PAD X-Factor, a run he doesn't really like all that much. People are complicated... Ranked This Episode: X-Force #31 Spider-Woman #37-38 X-Factor #237-239 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 !

Dec 9, 2024

Episode Notes For legal reasons, the hosts of Battle Of The Atom need to affirm that we explicitly do not endorse murder as defined in 18 U.S.C. §§ 1111 and 1112. 18 U.S.C. § 1111. This episode discusses fictional events and characters and any statements or inferences about one or both of the hosts being "pro-murder" must be taken in the context of a fictional story about a man with knives in his hands who fights metaphor robots powered by racism. Ranked This Episode: Uncanny X-Men #182 (Madness) Uncanny Avengers vol 1 #23-25 (March to AXIS) X-Men: Days Of Future Past - Doomsday 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 !

Dec 2, 2024

Episode Notes Son of a Bromide, those Gallium Darmstadtium BotA Boyz are at it again with their stretching of what counts as an X-Men comic. This time it's about Dr. Nemesis. Ranked This Episode: Lightning Comics #6 X-Men: Blind Science X-Men: Curse of the Mutants - Smoke & Blood 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 !

Nov 25, 2024

Episode Notes X-Men: The Manga: Remastered editor David Brothers joins the boys for a deep dive into the remaster of the manga adaptation of the cartoon adaptation of the X-Men comics. Like an onion, this episode has layers. 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 !

Nov 11, 2024

Episode Notes The horrors around us, they persist. But so does the Spirit of Vengeance. Adam and Zack continue celebrating Halloween longer than most people by talking about Ghost Rider because it was the best use of their mental energy on a Tuesday night. Ranked This Episode: Ghost Rider/Wolverine/Punisher: The Dark Design Ghost Rider v3 #9 (X-Factor) Ghost Rider/Wolverine: Weapons Of Vengeance 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 !

Nov 4, 2024

Episode Notes Legally, it's not Halloween anymore. But the bad boy of X-Men podcasting doesn't care. We're doing Halloween! Ranked This Episode: X-Men Unlimited v2 #1 Crypt of the Shadows #1 (2022) (Laura Kinney v Man-Thing) X-Force v1 #92 (Halloween Jack v Domino) 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 !

Oct 28, 2024

Episode Notes This is a New York Comic Con super special featuring Pepe Larraz, Kieron Gillen, Al Ewing, Declan Shalvey, Spencer Ackerman, Jackson Lanzing, David Marquez, Josh Cassara, Gerry Duggan, Chris Condon, and Justin Mason! 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 !

Oct 14, 2024

Episode Notes Tablua Rasa is a location in the Marvel universe that we all think about every day. These are the stories about it. Ranked this episode: Uncanny X-Men vol 2 #5-8 (Tablua Rasa) Spider-Man/Deadpool #23-25 (Arms Race) Extraordinary X-Men #4-5 (Weirdworld) 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 !

Oct 7, 2024

Episode Notes So X-Men Unlimited, it's a thing we always talk about right? We all think of all the important X-Men Unlimited stories, yes? Well much like X-Men Unlimited, Zack forgot what Adam and him talked about immediately after recording stopped on this episode so he can't give like, good notes. Sorry! Ranked This Episode: X-Men Unlimited vol 1 #4 (This is the one where Mystique yeets a baby) X-Men Unlimited vol 2 #7 X-Men Unlimited v3 #62-67 (A World Without X) 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 !

Sep 30, 2024

Episode Notes Esta semana en la Batalla del Átomo, los chicos viajan a Perú donde hablan sobre algunos cómics protagonizados por Patrulla-X. Espero que los dos oyentes de habla hispana aprecien el esfuerzo que estoy poniendo en estas notas. También espero que cualquiera que no entienda español entienda que esto es una broma y no haya descargado el podcast equivocado. Clasificado este episodio Cable #97-100 Captain Britain #10-14 Deadpool Max vol 1 #4 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 !

Sep 16, 2024

Episode Notes The guys get spicy. And by spicy we mean that Zack tries to explain ACOTAR to Adam even though he is only vaguely aware of it and Adam tries to stop us from getting the explicit tag. This episode is about Chris Bachalo, we promise. Ranked This Episode: Uncanny X-Men Vol 3 #8-11 (Broken) X-Men: Curse of the Mutants: Storm and Gambit X-Men Unlimited #1 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 !

Sep 9, 2024

Episode Notes Once upon a time Cyclops and Jean Grey got married at a Marvel holiday party and made it everyone else's problem. Ranked This Episode: X-Men #30 X-Men The Wedding Album What If #60 (X-Men Wedding Special ) 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 !

Sep 2, 2024

Episode Notes Comics are dumb (Complimentary) Ranked This Episode X-Terminators vol 2 Wolverine #133-138 (Great Escape) X-23 #17-19 (Misadventures In Babysitting) 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 !

Aug 26, 2024

Episode Notes Adam and guest Austin Gorton answer your questions while Zack sells air-conditioners. 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 !

Aug 19, 2024

Episode Notes Everyone loves conflict. Especially interpersonal conflict. Surely you will also enjoy it in this episode. Ranked this episode: New Mutants vol 3 #5 X-Force #124-129 Gen Hope #13-17 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 !

Aug 12, 2024

Episode Notes My guy Cable is just a dude in the world trying to make it through another day. Also he has a massive spear for anyone who gets in his way. That's just the way he rolls. Ranked This Episode: Cable #54 (Jungle Action) X-Man #45-47 & Cable #63 (Blood Brothers) Cable #65-68 (Signs of the End Times) 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 !

Aug 5, 2024

Episode Notes Adam and Anna talk about Skids this week. I wasn't there so I don't know how to describe it except "probably great" Ranked This Episode: X-Factor #16 (Skids Backstory) Spider-Man and the New Mutants New Mutants #86 (Rusty & Skids vs Vulture) 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 !

Jul 29, 2024

Episode Notes This week we have two dudes with a podcast talking about Carol Danvers. Which is the most concerning sentence you could pay in 2019. Ranked This Episode: Uncanny X-Men 246-247 (Master Mold) X-Men Legacy #269-270 (AVX Rogue vs Carol) Ms Marvel (vol 2) #9-10 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 !

Jul 22, 2024

Episode Notes Look, we are just as tired of this as you are but we want that sweet, sweet SEO boost so we got to try and capitalize on what looks to be the most insufferable film of the summer. You ever think about how jaded Adam & Zack have gotten over the years? How they no longer find joy in seeing their favorite blorbos on the big screen? What does that say about our society? What does it say about our future? Ranked This Episode: Wolverine #88 (vs Deadpool) Deadpool #27 (vs Wolverine) Deadpool Vs Old Man Logan 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 !

Jul 15, 2024

Episode Notes There's no villains this week, but there is Ken. We all love Ken, and by all I mean Zack and Adam. Ranked This Episode: Dazzler #21 (Carnegie Hall) Uncanny X-Men #309 (Xavier & Voight) New X-Men #131 (Beak/Angel, Scemma) 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 !

Jul 8, 2024

Episode Notes We were going to release this on Canada Day but that darn novel corona virus got in the way. Anyway, Anna is here and we are going to talk about John Byrne a lot. Ranked This Episode Uncanny X-Men #109 Alpha Flight #17 X-Men/Alpha Fight vol 2 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 !

Jun 24, 2024

Episode Notes It's well known that Charles Francis Xavier is a jerk. Here's some more. Ranked This Episode: X-Men: Original Sin The Shattering X-Men #65-66 (Z'Nox) 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 !

Jun 17, 2024

Episode Notes Outgoing X-Line editor and one of the friendliest friends of the pod Jordan D White talks about the First Krakoan Era and also a bunch of stuff that we wanted to talk about that is going to make the segment who wants us to ask any questions about "continuity" or "original plans" or "dropped plot points" or things that aren't extended Weezer bits very mad. Anyway it's a good episode and also our #350, which is almost enough that you could listen to one a day for a whole year if you hated yourself. 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 !

Jun 10, 2024

Episode Notes Ah Albert & Elsie-Dee. The kind of characters only people terminally cursed with X-Men brain rot could love. We love them so much. Ranked This Episode Wolverine #38-43, 45-46 (Albert & Elsie Dee) 2020 iWolverine Dark X-Men vol 2 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 !

Jun 3, 2024

Episode Notes Fill-in stories are a great chance to try and get a character over. Not Hazard though, he ain't ever getting over. Ranked This Episode: Uncanny X-Men #110 (Warhawk) X-Men #11-12 (Hazard) Age Of X-Man: Marvelous X-Men 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 !

May 27, 2024

Episode Notes The guy from Lost wrote a comic one time. It had Hulk into. Ipso facto we are doing a Hulk episode. Ranked This Episode Ultimate Wolverine Vs Hulk Incredible Hulk #390-392, X-Factor #76 (War & Pieces) W.M.D.: Weapons Of Mutant Destruction 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 !

May 20, 2024

Episode Notes Everyone is talking about X-Men '97 aren't they? Well, I guess everyone includes us because you get the unfiltered opinions of these two chuckleheads now. Also we talk about adaptations of things from the original Animated Series. Look we are nearly 350 episodes into this thing, you know what to expect at this point. Ranked This Episode: Adventures Of The X-Men #11-12 X-Men Adventures Vol 3 #10-13 (Dark Phoenix Saga) X-Men: The Manga Vol 1 #15-16 (Colossus) 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 !

May 13, 2024

Episode Notes The prompt was "a fine selection of Claremont tentacles, please". So that's what we are doing this week. Ranked This Episode Uncanny X-Men #176 Uncanny X-Men #262-263 Excalibur vol 3 #5-7 (Food Fight) 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 !

May 6, 2024

Episode Notes I (Zack) asked my wife if she ever thought about Spider-Man's old pants and how that is what Venom is. She said I need to mulch. Ranked This Episode: Poison X Web of Venom: Ve'Nam Venom: Tooth and Claw #1-3 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 !

Apr 29, 2024

Episode Notes Nightcrawler is a constant in the world of X-Men. Here's some stories where he isn't. Ranked This Episode Uncanny Spider-Man & X-Men: Blue Origins Uncanny X-Force #24 X-Men 2 Prequel: Nightcrawler 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 !

Apr 22, 2024

Episode Notes 900 X-Men stories in and we may be losing the plot because oops this one is all Malice and we don't actually get much closer to understanding her. Ranked This Episode: Excalibur (2019) #20 X-Factor #103-105 X-Men #200-203 (Blinded by the Light) 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 !

Apr 8, 2024

Episode Notes When I wore a younger man's clothes I used to go to concerts and have a great time. Now I talk about them on podcasts. Ranked This Episode: X-Men Unlimited #32 (Behind The Music) New Mutants #33-36 (Diskhord) X-Men '92 #6-10 (Lilapalooza) 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 !

Apr 1, 2024

Episode Notes Sometimes SOMEONE will start a plot and ever finish it. This is about the time Claremont decided Dazzler was immortal. Ranked This Episode Uncanny X-Men #217-218 (Dazzler v Juggernaut) New Excalibur #1-3 (Here We Go Again!) New Excalibur #6-7 (So Why Is It I'm Not Dead?!) 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 !

Mar 25, 2024

Episode Notes I once threatened Adam with a Madam Web episode. Well guess what the Bad Boy Of X-Men Podcasting did? Plus Zack & Adam sent each other predictions of the new X-Men era. Now that it's announced we get to see who was right and who is committed to bits you couldn't possibly understand. Ranked This Episode: Amazing Spider-Mam #229-230 (Nothing Can Stop the Juggernaut) Alias #16-21 (The Underneath) X-Factor #8-9 (Pre-Mutant Massacre) 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 !

Mar 18, 2024

Episode Notes Our beloved Bendis era X-Men. Our Saint, Eva Bell. This one is for you. Ranked This Episode: Uncanny X-Men Annual & All-New X-Men Annual (The Secret Life Of Eva Bell) Uncanny X-Men vol 3 #17-18 Uncanny X-Men vol 3 #19-22 (VS S.H.I.E.L.D.) 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 !

Mar 11, 2024

Episode Notes Who is ready for a huge amount of discussion about sustainability and how to manage the pending climate disaster? Ranked This Episode: X-Men Green Wolverine: Global Jeopardy Doom 2099 #19-21 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 !

Mar 4, 2024

Episode Notes Austin Gorton teams up with Adam today for a very exciting episode all about Lila Cheney. Ranked This Episode: New Mutants #42 (Sam + Lila) X-Factor v1 #110-111 (Lila + Guido) Strong Guy Reborn #1 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 !

Feb 26, 2024

Episode Notes With apologies to our neighbors up north, this sure is not the nicest thing anyone has ever recorded about Canada... Ranked This Episode: Uncanny X-Men #139-140 Amazing X-Men #8-12 (World War Wendigo) Incredible Hulk #180-181 (And Now... the Wolverine!) 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 !

Feb 19, 2024

Episode Notes I know cats aren't dogs. I don't know if Jeff Loeb does. Ranked This Episode: Wolverine v3 #13-19 (Return of the Native) Wolverine v3 50-55 (Evolution) Wolverine v3 57-61 (Logan Dies) 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 !

Feb 12, 2024

Episode Notes Oh baby, we're hot just like an oven for this the newest episode of Battle Of The Atom. This time it's about dating. Ranked This Episode X-Men v2 #24 Ultimate X-Men #66-68 (Date Night) Wolverine & the X-Men #14 (Kitty/PhoenixPiotr Date) 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 !

Feb 5, 2024

Episode Notes Celebrate Betsy with us as Psylocke meets our psyche. Ranked This Episode: New Mutants Annual #2 (Wildways) Uncanny X-Men #328 & Sabretooth Special #1 X-Men #77-78 (Psi-War) 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 !

Jan 29, 2024

Episode Notes Zack has the week off so Adam is joined by Harvard Prof Stephanie Burt (of Taylor Swift course fame ) to talk Kitty Pryde! Ranked This Episode: Uncanny X-Men #168 (Professor Xavier Is A Jerk) Marvel Team Up #135 (Spidey & Kitty) Classic X-Men #35 (Paper, Not Paper) 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 !

Jan 21, 2024

Episode Notes Has Battle of the Atom turned into too much of a dads making dick jokes podcast? You be the judge because we are talking about X-Men character Man-Thing this week. I cannot tell if people enjoy it when we stretch the premise of the show like this and we no longer need the feedback as we have become part of the great mycelium network. Ranked This Episode: Man-Thing #11 Uncanny X-Men #142 (Man-Thing) Weapon Plus: World War IV #1 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 !

Jan 15, 2024

Episode Notes Want to listen to two dudes not want to talk about comics for a while? You have come to the right place. For further reading on this run, check out this fantastic article by our pal Nola Pfau . Ranked This Episode Uncanny X-Men #11-16 (This Is Forever) War Of The Realms: Uncanny X-Men Uncanny X-Men #17-22 (We Have Always Been) 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 !

Jan 8, 2024

Episode Notes Oh dang it's The Fury! I don't know if you know this, but it kills superheroes. Ranked This Episode The Jasper's Warp (Marvel Superheroes #377–388, The Daredevils #1-11, The Mighty World of Marvel Vol. 2 #7-13) Captain Britain #15-27 (Cap & Cap Vs Red Skull) Captain Britan #5-9 (Double Game) 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 !

Dec 25, 2023

Episode Notes Merry Christmas everyone, let's celebrate with Zack's unsolicited opinions. Ranked This Episode: Dark Web X-Men Marvels Epilogue Marvel Holiday Special 94 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 !

Dec 18, 2023

Episode Notes It's the end of the year, go get that thing checked out. The waitlist for Dr. visits is too long and you know it. Ranked This Episode: Uncanny X-Men Special #1, Iron Man Special #1, Nova Special #1 (No End In Sight) Uncanny X-Men v2 Annual #3, Steve Rogers: Super Soldier Annual #1, Namor: The First Mutant Annual #1 (Escape from the Negative Zone) Kings Of Pain 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 !

Dec 11, 2023

Episode Notes It's the newest episode of that podcast that's stuck in your head, stuck on your heart, stuck on your body, body. Might want to get that checked out... Ranked This Episode: Runaways vol 2 #9-12 (East Coast/West Coast) Runaways vol 3 #10 (Mollifest Destiny) Runaways vol 5 #33-35 (Come Away With Me) 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 !

Nov 27, 2023

Episode Notes The Ultraverse dares to ask, what if comics sucked? Spoiler alert but we have never ranked this many bad comics in one episode. Ranked This Episode Phoenix Resurrection (Ultraverse) All-New Exiles Vs X-Men #0 All-New Exiles #∞, 1-3 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 !

Nov 20, 2023

Episode Notes Who is ready for Zack and Adam to argue about She-Hulk, a show one of that has not watched, for longer than we talk about some comics? Also, lots of love for John Proudstar, the star of The Gifted, a show we both did watch but forgot about until Zack was writing the episode notes. Ranked This Episode: X-Men #22-23 (Count Nefaria) Uncanny X-Men #94-95 (The Doomsmith Scenario) Chaos War X-Men 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 !

Nov 13, 2023

Episode Notes Has there ever been a good Mojo story? One that didn't disappoint? This episode will not help your case if you there there has been. Ranked This Episode: Uncanny X-Men #460-461 (Mojo Rising!) Mojo Worldwide (X-Men Gold & Blue) Mr & Mrs X #7-10 (Gambit & Rogue Forever) 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 !

Nov 6, 2023

Episode Notes Remember when this podcast started and we were deep in the dog days of the Terrigen Mists? Zack & Adam remember. Ranked This Episode Civil War II: X-Men Deadpool & The Merc$ For Money #7-8 Secret Warriors #8-12 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 !

Oct 30, 2023

Episode Notes Hell-ppy Hell-oween everyone. We are doing a Hell House instead of a heathen haunted house this year on Battle Of The Atom. ComicsXF Senior Hell Correspondent Robert Secundas joins us. Ranked This Episode: X-Men Annual #4 (Nightcrawler's Inferno) Wolverine #1-5 (Wolverine Goes To Hell) Sabretooth #1-5 (The Adversary) 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 !

Oct 23, 2023

Episode Notes Adam does interviews with a lot of folks. Zack has not actually listened to the episode yet. Please let him know any exciting news that comes from these. Ben Percy (Wolverine and X-Force) Philip Sevy (X-Men Unlimited, Deadpool Seven Slaughters) Bernard Chang (Jean Grey) Tini Howard (Excalibur, X-Corp, Knights of X, Capt Britain) Lucas Werneck (Immortal X-Men, Fall of the House of X) Joshua Cassara (X-Men) 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 !

Oct 16, 2023

Episode Notes There's a real upsetting thing about time in that it feels like time is all messed up as is our perception of time. I thought these stories came out last week and they DID NOT. Ranked This Episode X-Men #18-19 (The Vault) Cable vol 4 #1-4 (Light Of Galador) X-Corps 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 !

Oct 9, 2023

Episode Notes Adam and Zack gush about a forgotten gem and then also other comics with Domino in them. Ranked This Episode: Domino vol 1 Domino vol 2 Domino vol 3 #1-6 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 !

Oct 2, 2023

Episode Notes We're finally here with our most attitude filled episode ever. Featuring WWE SmackDown referee Jason Ayers! Ranked This Episode: X-Force: Sex & Violence Wolverine #159-161 (Best There Is) The Brotherhood 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 !

Sep 18, 2023

Episode Notes Welcome to America's #1 podcast about children's X-Men comics. None of these stories are intended for the over 10 crowd, but that's not going to stop us! Ranked This Episode Meet The X-Men X-Men: Morlock Madness Avengers Assembly: X-Change Students 101 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 !

Sep 11, 2023

Episode Notes Oh Magma, of all the New Mutants you are simply the one who can't seem to happen. Interesting then that you have become a stealth favorite of Marc Guggenheim... Ranked This Episode: New Mutants #37 (A Date With The Devil) Young X-Men #1-5 X-Men: Gold #1-3 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 !

Sep 4, 2023

Episode Notes Everyone loves Amanda Sefton, it's hard not to, despite the many terrible comics she has been in. We also love her and find, perhaps, a good gem that she has done. Ranked This Episode Magik X-Men Unlimited #19 X-Men: Black Sun 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 !

Aug 28, 2023

Episode Notes Good morning folks. This one is about Rogue and then also about letting Chris Claremont do whatever he wants. Ranked This Episode: Uncanny X-Men #171 (Welcome To The X-Men Rogue) X-Men #197-199 (Red Data) X-Treme X-Men #31-36 (Intifada) 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 !

Aug 21, 2023

Episode Notes Amber is the color of our energy as we return to talk all about Eye-Boy, a great guy all around. Ranked This Episode Generation X vol 2 #5 X-Factor #1-3, 5 (Krakoa) Wolverine & the X-Men #29 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 !

Jul 31, 2023

Episode Notes Another episode of Battle Of The Atom, another chance for Zack to frustrate Adam by talking about the obscure X-Men characters only he and Steve Orlando remember. This time it's Hellions. Ranked This Episode: Hellions #9-11 (Funny Games) New X-Men: Hellions X-Force #87-90 (Armageddon Now) 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 !

Jul 24, 2023

Episode Notes Forge! He's the maker and boy howdy does he have a lot going on. Zack has a lot going on too. He got a new chair! Ranked This Episode: Uncanny X-Men #184-185 (Depowering Storm) New Mutants #65-66 (Magik V Forge) X-Men vol 6 #15-17 (Forge in The Vault) 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 !

Jul 17, 2023

Episode Notes This is the one you have been waiting for. It is a podcast all about X-Men: Destiny character Pixie. Ranked This Episode: X-Men: Pixie Strikes Back Uncanny X-Men #500-503 (SFX) Runaways vol 4 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 !

Jul 10, 2023

Episode Notes [Insert bit about Bendis] Also Tony joins us! Ranked This Episode: All-New X-Men #31-36 (Meet Miles) Ultimate X-Men #40-45 (New Mutants) Ultimate Spider-Man Annual #1 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 !

Jul 3, 2023

Episode Notes Once upon a time, The Rob ruled the world. It wasn't a good time, but we had fun talking about it. Ranked This Episode Youngblood/X-Force X-Force/Youngblood Prophet/Cable 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 !

Jun 26, 2023

Episode Notes X-Men fans hate Avengers fans. Maybe. I don't know, sometimes I think it's just fun to do jokes and it doesn't count as "punching down" when The Avengers are the most popular thing in movies. Also because they are fictional. Anywhere, here's some stories that make you understand why the X-Men fans hate Avengers fans. Ranked This Episode: X-Men/Avengers: Bloodties Uncanny Avengers #1-5 New Avengers #16-20 (The Collective) 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 !

Jun 19, 2023

Episode Notes A couple times a year, an Exiles fan asks us to talk about comics that they like and we don't. No one is happy with this and yet we still do it. Ranked This Episode: Exiles #90-94 (Enemy of the Stars) Exiles Vol 3 #1-5 Exiles #28-30 (Unnatural Instincts) 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 !

Jun 12, 2023

Episode Notes Very famous author Emily Harding of Emma of 83rd Street joins us to talk about another Emma you might know. Emma Frost. Who has never actual read Jane Austen. Ranked This Episode: Emma Frost #7-12 (Mind Games) Dark X-Men: The Confession Generation X #55-56 (UXM 281 Redux) 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 !

Jun 5, 2023

Episode Notes Rogue man, we all know she was a villian before joining the X-Men but for people who only read X-Men (aka listeners of this podcast, I assume) they might not have seen everywhere she shows up as a baddie before this. We resolve that by describing the adventures of ROM, the greatest of The Spaceknights. Ranked This Episode: Uncanny X-Men #158 (The Life That Late I Led...) ROM SpaceKnight #31-32 (Hybrid II) Dazzler #27-28 (Vendetta!) 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 !

May 22, 2023

Episode Notes Welcome to the Attitude Era. Hope you survive the experience. Ranked this episode: Ultimate X-Men #75-78 (Cable) Ultimate Comics: X-Men #1-12 Ultimate Comics: X-Men #13-18 (Divided We Fall/United We Stand) 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 !

May 15, 2023

Episode Notes Episode #300 of Battle Of The Atom brings an event foretold by the sages. Ranknarok: The Rereankening. Also Brian Michael Bendis stops by for a great discussion on his time on the X-Men titles. Re-Ranked This Episode: New Mutants Summer Special Inferno (X-Men/X-Factor) Astonishing X-Men #1-6 (Gifted) 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 !

May 8, 2023

Episode Notes What if I told you that the world of 2099 is a concept that often has diminishing returns? You would probably believe me. Anyway, this one is for the boys with the booming systems. Ranked This Episode: Timestorm 2009-2099: X-Men Spider-Man 2099 Exodus #5 X-Men 2099: Oasis 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 !

May 1, 2023

Episode Notes It's a Cyclops week where, let me tell you what, we forgot how annoying the M-Pox era was for all of us. Ranked This Episode: Cyclops (2010) #1 Champions vol 3 #5 (War Of The Realms) All New X-Men vol 2 #1-3 (The Ghosts Of Cyclops) 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 !

Apr 24, 2023

Episode Notes While editing this episode, Adam made a list of the stuff Zack trash talks in it: Elon Musk Back to the Future All 80s Movies Vision All of Post-Romita Sr Spider-Man Nick Spencer Stefano Caselli Pre-Sienkewicz New Mutants Thunderbolts M-Pox That's why he's the Bad Boy Of X-Men Podcasting. Ranked this episode: Avengers World #9 New Mutants #1-4 US Avengers #10-12 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 !

Apr 17, 2023

Episode Notes The Dark Phoenix Saga is the defining story in X-Men, and no character is more impacted by it than Jean Grey. This episode asks, perchance, what if stories didn't think about it? Ranked This Episode: X-Men #28 (Devil In The House) X-Men First Class Vol 2 #1 (Job Shadow) Marvel Girl #1 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 !

Apr 10, 2023

Episode Notes We return to 2099 with a vengeance. Unfortunately, we are beginning to understand why these books were canceled with a vengeance. An unexpected, and historic, episode. Ranked This Episode: X-Men 2099 #26-29 (City Of The Dead) X-Nation 2099 2099: World of Tomorrow 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 !

Apr 3, 2023

Episode Notes We once again enter the weird world of Legion and let me tell you what, the takes in this episode? They are smoking hot. Ranked: X-Men: Legacy #1-6 (Prodigal) X-Men: Legacy #251-253 (Lost Legions) Uncanny X-Men #254-255 (Muir Island X-Men) 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 !

Mar 27, 2023

Episode Notes We're doing the Brood this time. It's the one where the Brood Queen was most likely to go to heaven. Ranked: X-Men Vs The Brood Astonishing X-Men #38,40,42 (Meanwhile) Cable vol 2 #16-20 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 !

Mar 13, 2023

Episode Notes This one is about Iceman and, as promised, we make an insufferable amount of ice puns. Ranked This Episode: Iceman Vol 2 Astonishing X-Men #62-65 Bizarre Adventure #27 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 !

Mar 6, 2023

Episode Notes The rules? They no longer apply to us. We've decided to stretch the premise of the podcast past the logical conclusion and into a world where frankly, nothing is ever the same. Looks folks, it's coming up on six years, we're deep into our having fun with it era. Ranked This Episode: Incredible Hulk #148 (But Tomorrow -- The Sun Shall Die!) Avengers #102-104 (The Sentinels Are Alive and Well!) Giant-Size Fantastic Four #4 (Madrox the Multiple Man) 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 !

Feb 27, 2023

Episode Notes A lot of people will be upset about the Morph we are spending the episode with. Those people need to remember that we are a podcast named after a Bendis event. Here's your reminder to go read Christiana Strain's Gen X. Ranked This Episode: Uncanny X-Men vol 3 #14 Generation X #1-2 (ResurrXion) Generation X #8-9, #85-87 (Survival Of The Fittest) 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 !

Feb 20, 2023

Episode Notes Shinobi Shaw should have been a big deal right? Instead he's always getting into it with teenagers. The dude just needs to chill. Ranked This Episode: Child's Play: X-Force/New Warriors X-Men Annual #3 Generation X Annual Vol 1 1995 (Mondo) 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 !

Feb 13, 2023

Episode Notes The X-Men are always infighting. That's why we love them. But this episode posits that maybe sometimes they fight versions of the original five X-Men as a bit? We're committed to it. Also in this episode? A lot of talk about Tipper Gore. Ranked This Episode Uncanny X-Men #106 X-Men 2099 #8-11 (Zhao) Uncanny X-Men #19 (Mimic) 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 !

Feb 6, 2023

Episode Notes It's time, finally, the reason we started this show! Zack finally gets to talk to someone about X-Men 2099. Get ready for the critical reevaluation of the century. Ranked This Episode: X-Men 2099 #1-3 (The Gathering) X-Men 2099 #16-20 (Halloween Jack) X-Men 2099 #21-25 (2099 A.D. [After Doom]) 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 !

Jan 30, 2023

Episode Notes Adam was busy so Zack called up Connor Goldsmith from Cerebro to talk about the Age of Apocalypse. Shocking no one, there's a mean lady that Connor has no choice but to stan. Ranked This Episode: Factor X Weapon X X-Calibre 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 !

Jan 23, 2023

Episode Notes Once again, Jordan D White, Senior Editor on the X-Men books, joins us to talk about what all happened last year and what all is going to happen this year. Also, oddly enough, a bit about the event Battle Of The Atom and where the heck you can find Raze. 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 !

Jan 16, 2023

Episode Notes Zack's going on vacation so he decided to torment Adam and himself by spending a whole episode talking about Ultimatum. What a bad comic. Ranked This Episode Ultimatum Ultimate X-Men #98-100, Requiem #1 (Ultimatum) Ultimate X-Men #26-33 (Return Of The King) 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 !

Jan 9, 2023

Episode Notes We don't actually go to Long Island on this one, but we got to the island of Madripoor. We're all Madripoor down here. Ranked This Episode: Generation X #53-54 Wolverine #1-3 (The Black Blade) X-23/Daken: Dark Wolverine: Collision 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 !

Jan 2, 2023

Episode Notes Welcome to 2023. We're doing politics now. Ranked This Episode: X-Men #4 (Global Economics) X-Factor #82-83 (X-Patriots) Ultimate War 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 !

Dec 26, 2022

Episode Notes They say don't speak ill of the dead. Well no one told Professor X and Magneto that because this episode has them negging the heck outta Stan Lee as Battle Of The Atom goes to the movies. Ranked This Episode: X-Men Unlimited #17 (Faceoff) X-Men #40 (Frankenstein) X-Men: The Last Stand Collectors Edition DVD Movie w/ Comic Book 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 !

Dec 19, 2022

Episode Notes It's Chrisesmas once again and wouldn't you know it, Chris & Christi Eddleman have joined Zack & Adam to ostensibly talk about X-Men comics but really to catch up and hang out. If you are here for X-Men content and only X-Men content, well, get ready to have Marvel's first furry hero explained to you. Ranked This Episode: Amazing Spider-Man #420 (Twas A Night Before X-Man) GLX-Mas Special #1 Uncanny X-Men #365 (Ghost of X-Mas Past) 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 !

Dec 12, 2022

Episode Notes We all remember Chris Claremont's classic work on his most famous characters, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, Misty Knight and Colleen Wing. This week we look into those characters and specifically how they intersect with some forgotten characters, the X-Men. Ranked This Episode: Uncanny X-Men #122 Dazzler #22-24 (Sisterhood) Uncanny X-Men: First Class #4 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 !

Dec 5, 2022

Episode Notes We've done a lot of episodes about wretched war criminal Beast, but today we talk about delightful war criminal Abigail Brand and her time with SWORD! Ranked This Episode: SWORD Vol 1 X-Men Vol 4 #18-22 SWORD Vol 2 #1-5 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 !

Nov 28, 2022

Episode Notes We've done it. We've become a podcast about ship wars. Get out of here you Jarbs with your Jott agenda. Emmor stans? To the side. This is all about Scemma 4 eva! Nothing will ever make me think this is not a perfect ship and if writers do not appreciate it in the same way I do, they deserve the Hague. 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 !

Nov 21, 2022

Episode Notes Spider-Man and Nightcrawler are our blue and red wall-crawlers but did you know they have teamed up? You did? Well so did Anna Peppard who joins us this week to Bamf all over this place. Ranked This Episode: Amazing Spider-Man #161-162 Marvel Team-Up #89 Amazing Nightcrawler 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 !

Nov 14, 2022

Episode Notes Many people like to talk about the war crimes of Beast. Today, we want to highlight some of his lesser known mass murders. Everyone's favorite fun loving Avenger right? Ranked This Episode: Astonishing X-Men #25-30 (Ghost Box) Secret Avengers #16 All-New X-Men #25 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 !

Nov 7, 2022

Episode Notes There's been a lot of X-Men podcasts before us, and there will be a lot of X-Men podcasts after us, but let me tell you what, ain't none of them gonna beat us! Because we are the BOTA BOYZ and we are too stupid and too ugly to know when to quit! This is a call out to all those so called contenders, you talk a big game behind your RSS feeds but we'll see who the supreme champion of talking about X-Men in podcasts are when we meet in the ring, Friday night on Smackdown! throws the mic to a steady stream of boos Ranked this episode: Dazzler #13 Wild Thing #4 Marvel Two-In-One Annual #7 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 !

Oct 31, 2022

Episode Notes Happy Halloween! We here at Battle Of The Atom have decided to celebrate by talking about the scariest thing of all, bad comics. Ranked This Episode: Excalibur #118-119 (Dark Night Of The Bamfs) Marvel Zombies Halloween #1 Weapon X #22-27 (Weapon X Force) 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 !

Oct 24, 2022

Episode Notes Wanna see Adam grow increasingly more angry and Zack's commitment to bits? Bits everyone loves? Could this be the end of Battle Of The Atom? Spoiler Alert: No. Ranked This Episode: Stan Lee Presents: X-Men: The End: Book One: Dreamers and Demons Stan Lee Presents: X-Men: The End: Book Two: Heroes and Martyrs Stan Lee Presents: X-Men: The End: Book Three: Men and X-Men 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 !

Oct 17, 2022

Episode Notes Adam hits the show floor to talk to some fantastic creators at New York Comic Con 2022. 4:30 - Zeb Wells 7:37 - Steve Orlando 15:05 - Maria Wolf 20:25 - Danny Lore 28:45 - David Nakayama 34:00 - Bill Sienkewicz 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 !

Oct 10, 2022

Episode Notes 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) 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 !

Oct 3, 2022

Episode Notes 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 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 !

Sep 26, 2022

Episode Notes 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 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 !

Sep 19, 2022

Episode Notes 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! 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 !

Sep 12, 2022

Episode Notes 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 !

Sep 5, 2022

Episode Notes 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) 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 !

Aug 29, 2022

Episode Notes 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" 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 !

Aug 22, 2022

Episode Notes 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 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 !

Aug 15, 2022

Episode Notes 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 !

Aug 8, 2022

Episode Notes 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. Ranked this episode: Excalibur #62-65 (Warpies Return) Excalibur #6-8 (Inferno) Excalibur: The Sword Is Drawn 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 !

Aug 1, 2022

Episode Notes Enter the world of Mutant X, a run that's buck wild and if anyone tries to tell me it is good, I will think less of them. Maddy is in this a lot and people like her. Ranked This Episode: Mutant X #4-12 & Annual 1999 (Goblin Queen) Mutant X #31-32 & Annual 2002 (Beyonder) X-Men: Blue #10-12 (Toil & Trouble) 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 !

Jul 25, 2022

Episode Notes Dare to talk about drugs today with the boys of Battle Of The Atom. Ranked This Episode: X-Men Legacy #10-12 (Invasive Exotics) Ultimate X-Men #94-97 (Banshee) Spider-Man, Power Man & Storm: Smokescreen 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 !

Jul 18, 2022

Episode Notes We spend the episode talking about the master of Magnetism. Content Warning: We talk about the Holocaust Ranked This Episode: Magento: Testament Magneto War Defenders #15-16 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 !

Jul 11, 2022

Episode Notes It was a dark and stormy night, in that there was a massive storm outside of Zack's window and team? We had to call the episode early so SOMEONE could get away from the window. We talk about Annuals this week. Ranked This Episode: New Mutants Annual #3 X-Force Annual #3 Uncanny X-Men #371, X-Men #91 & X-Men Annual 99 (Dawn Of M-Tech) 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 !

Jul 4, 2022

Episode Notes We talk about definitely an X-Men character no matter what you say, Deadpool on this exciting episode where there is nothing but Deadpool content. Ranked This Episode: Deadpool vol 5 #15-19 (The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly) Deadpool vol 4 #15-18 (Want You To Want Me) Deadpool vol 2 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 !

Jun 27, 2022

Episode Notes We ask "What If those BotA boys talked about the best comic strip cat for an absurd chunk of the episode?" And we salute a fallen friend. Ranked This Episode: What If? Wolverine: Enemy Of The State What If? Deadly Genesis What If? Astonishing X-Men 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 !

Jun 20, 2022

Episode Notes X-Men Unlimited writer Alex Paknadel helps celebrate the year of Maggott as he and Zack talk about the just wrapped arc! 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 !

Jun 13, 2022

Episode Notes Hey you tall haired freaks, we're here to talk about David Haller, the boy known as Legion. He's been in some, uhhhh, odd stories over the years. These are 3 of them. Ranked This Episode: X-Men Legacy #13-14 (Hope & Glory) Legion Age Of X 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 !

Jun 6, 2022

Listen folks, this one has everything you want from those BotA Boyz, religion, art, making fun of Daddy Chris, circus crimes and incest. It's always fun to talk about Nightcrawler. Ranked This Episode: Excalibur #83-85 (The Soul Sword Trilogy) Nightcrawler vol 3 #7-12 (The Winding Way) Nightcrawler vol 4 #1-4 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 !

May 30, 2022

Episode Notes Shatterstar begat Longshot who begat Shatterstar who begat Longshot who begat Shatterstar who begat Longshot who begat Shatterstar who begat Longshot who begat Shatterstar and oh shoot it's a DADDYBOROS! Ranked This Episode: X-Factor #259 (Daddyboros) Longshot Shattershot 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 !

May 23, 2022

Episode Notes We celebrate our 250th episode in a low key style with some exciting stories about X-23, plus a Q&A segment. Always a fun time. Ranked This Episode: X-23 Vol 1 (Innocence Lost) X-23 Vol 3 #10-12 (Touching Darkness) X-23 Vol 4 #1-5 (Two Birthdays and Three Funerals) 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 !

May 16, 2022

Episode Notes We talk about some early Claremont stories with weird characters like Zaladane. Y'all know and love Zaladane right? We're not just riding the coattails of another podcast by referencing Zaladane in this one right? Ranked This Episode: Uncanny X-Men #104 (The Gentleman's Name Is Magneto) Uncanny X-Men #114-116 (To Save the Savage Land) Marvel's Super-Heroes #10-11 (Ms Marvel) 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 !

May 9, 2022

Episode Notes The dream of the 90s is still alive and well in this podcast. We chat about "good 90s X-Men that we haven't already talked about" Ranked This Episode: Uncanny X-Men #287-290 X-Men #42-44 (Fall of Avalon) X-Men #70 (Homecoming) 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 !

May 2, 2022

Episode Notes I just think Storm. Ranked this episode: Uncanny X-Men #151-152 (The Hellfire Gambit) Uncanny X-Men #169-170 (Morlocks) Marauders #20 (Windriders) 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 !

Apr 25, 2022

Episode Notes We had so much fun talking about the Starjammers last week, we decided to keep the party going by talking about our favorites like Cr+reee and Tolon Hawk. These are characters X-Men fans are deeply invested in right? Ranked this Episode: Uncanny X-Men #154-157 (Sidrian Hunters & Starjammers) Spotlight On Starjammers Starjammers vol 2 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 !

Apr 18, 2022

Episode Notes We spend the whole episode talking about Cyclops. You must understand, we love our son so much. He has so many daddy issues. Heck, I bet you could fill up a whole episode with them. Ranked This Episode: Cyclops vol 1 Avengers Vs X-Men: Consequences Cyclops vol 3 #1-5 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 !

Apr 11, 2022

Episode Notes This week we take a trip to Otherworld and appreciate all the work Tini Howard did to make that place make sense. Because, wow, it might have actually been bad before 2019. Ranked This Episode: Uncanny X-Force: Otherworld Excalibur vol 2 Wisdom Max 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 !

Apr 5, 2022

Episode Notes We have a special ComicsXF Feed Drop for you. Check out our friends at WMQ&A! Writer Steve Foxe returns to talk about X-Men '92: House of XCII , Archer & Armstrong Forever , and to play some '92 trivia. ( Programming note: Since we recorded this episode, the release date for X-Men '92: House of XCII #1 has been pushed to April 13.) You can listen to WMQ&A on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify, Stitcher, Amazon Music, Audible and at ComicsXF.com , where new episodes move Tuesday mornings. You can follow the show on Twitter @wmqcomics, and you can follow Dan Grote @danielpgrote and Matt Lazorwitz @mattlaz1013. Subscribe to WMQ&A on Patreon for early access to episodes, thanks on the show and, depending on the tier, a free comic, a spot in CXF’s weekly Staff Picks and early access to our new Patreon-exclusive bonus podcast, Our Son Pete , a deep dive into the comic appearances of British mutant superspy Pete Wisdom. Also, don’t forget to listen to Matt’s podcast, BatChat with Matt and Will. Our show art is by Adam Reck , and our logo is by Scott Modrzynski . Listen to past episodes of WMQ&A here and here .

Apr 4, 2022

Episode Notes We spend a time talking about the Shadow King, a character who has been in two good stories. We cover one of them. The good news is, we get weirdly worked up about another that should be otherwise forgotten. Hope you enjoy it as much as we did! Ranked This Episode; Uncanny X-Men #117 (Psi-War) New Mutants #29-34 (Gladiators/Karma) Astonishing X-Men #1-6 (Life Of X) 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 !

Mar 28, 2022

Episode Notes Noted comic writer Kieron Gillen joins us to talk about his work on the upcoming Immortal X-Men and the massive summer event A.X.E.: Judgement Day . It's a good time. 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 !

Mar 21, 2022

Episode Notes Y'all know how good Pepe Larraz is at doing art? We follow his X-Men Evolution though a bunch of stuff he did well before House Of X. Ranked This Episode: Wolverine & The X-Men #37-39 AXIS: Revolutions #3 Uncanny Avengers #18-#23 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 !

Mar 14, 2022

Episode Notes It's a New X-Men party as we celebrate Grant Morrison & Frank Quitely's time on New X-Men. Also some other artists that kill the whole vibe. Ranked This Episode: New X-Men #117-120 (Germ Free Generation) New X-Men #121 (Silence: Psychic Rescue In Progress) New X-Men #122-126 (Imperial) 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 !

Mar 7, 2022

Episode Notes Warpath is our big, friend shaped guy and this episode is all about him. Ranked This Episode: Uncanny X-Men #193 (Warpath) X-Force #-1 Uncanny X-Men #487-491 (The Extremists) 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 !

Feb 28, 2022

Episode Notes The thing about Havok, and I love this, is that he's actually pretty dumb and CONSTATLY get's captured by a man dresser like an extra in a music video for The Bangles. Ranked this episode: Uncanny X-Men #97 (My Brother, My Enemy) Marvel Team-Up #69-70 (Havok, Thor) Marvel Comics Presents #24-31 (Pharaoh's Legacy) 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 !

Feb 21, 2022

Episode Notes Did you think we'd be fine? Still got scars on my back from your knife. So don't think it's in the past, these kind of wounds they last and they last. Now did you think it all through? All these things will catch up to you, and time can heal, but this won't; so if you come in my way, just don't. Ranked this episode: X-Force #1-2 (A Force To Be Reckoned With) Cable: Blood & Metal Deadpool: Bad Blood 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 !

Feb 14, 2022

Episode Notes We talk about everyone's favorite character from the X-Men. That's right, this week is all about Galactus. Do we spend more time talking about Al Ewing comics than what we're actually covering for the episode? You be the judge. Ranked This Episode Exiles #8-10 Generations: Phoenix & Jean Grey Cataclysm Ultimate X-Men 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 !

Jan 31, 2022

Episode Notes We set our sails high as Steve Orlando discusses relaunching Marauders and digging into Giant-Size Thunderbird . Plus our C2E2 discussion with Marauders Annual #1 artist Creees Lee. 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 !

Jan 24, 2022

Episode Notes The road to 600 comes to a startling conclusion as we recount the numerous war crimes of Hank McCoy. Ranked This Episode X-Force #6,#9-10 (Terra Verde) X-Men: Blue #7-9 (Secret Empire) Uncanny X-Men #600 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 !

Jan 17, 2022

Episode Notes In beautiful, unintentional synergy with the X-Men Vote, we are talking about that time Emma Frost blew up a horse; for the children of course. Always talking about being for the children that one, even when she is goofily evil. Ranked This Episode: New Mutants #15-17 (Hellions) Firestar #1-4 New Mutants #62 (Magma & Empath) 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 !

Jan 10, 2022

Episode Notes X-Men Group Editor Jordan D White joins us to answers questions the brightest minds have been asking since before the Dawn of X. Want to know the truth about what changed in Hickman's plan, the writer's departure or Baby Havok? You must listen to this one. 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 !

Jan 3, 2022

Episode Notes We ring in the new year with wedding bells for our friend Wolverine. Ranked this episode: Uncanny X-Men #172-173 (Wolverine Wedding) What If...? #43 (What If Wolverine Married Mariko) Wolverine #125-128 (Wolverine Marries Viper) 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 !

Dec 27, 2021

Episode Notes We close out our year with X Lives & X Deaths Of Wolverine writer Benjamin Percy here to talk to us about his work on the line over the last couple years and what to expect in the Destiny of X! 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 !

Dec 20, 2021

Episode Notes Chris and Christi Eddleman join us to celebrate Chrisesmas! Also exclusive interviews with Lethal Larry Hama and Cantankerous Chris Claremont from C2E2! Ranked This Episode: X-Men vol 2 #109 (Christmas) X-Men vol 2 #165 (Christmas) Marvel Holiday Special 2007 "Piece of Cake" 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 !

Dec 13, 2021

Episode Notes This week on Battle Of The Atom, podcaster extraordinaire Connor Goldsmith talks to us about Betsy Braddock and Revanche. Also this one has some cusses and a couple swears. Check out Connor's great show Cerebro here Ranked This Episode: X-Men vol 2 #31-32 (Soul Possession) Psylocke Hunt for Wolverine: Mystery in Madripoor 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 !

Dec 6, 2021

Episode Notes Travel back to 2003 as we talk about terrorist, spy and generally neat person Mystique. Ranked This Episode: Sabretooth/Mystique Mystique #1-6 X-Men #171-174 (Bizarre Love Triangle) 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 !

Nov 29, 2021

Episode Notes It's time to power up this podcast as we return to the power of the Power Pack. Ranked this episode: X-Men/Power Pack Wolverine/Power Pack Power Pack #36 The episode of Jeff And Rick Present: Unpacking The Power Of Power Pack that Zack was on can be found here. 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 !

Nov 22, 2021

Episode Notes This is about team ups. I recorded it not 48 hours ago and I have no recollection of what our bits were. Adam says it's a "classic". Ranked This Episode: Wolverine & Jubilee X-Force vol 2 Wolverine/Doop 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 !

Nov 15, 2021

Episode Notes We talk about the X-Men character Hyperion. You know him, he is fake Superman. Ranked this episode: Exiles #38-40 (King Hyperion) Exiles #43-45 (A Blink In Time) Exiles #62-#65 (Timebreakers) 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 !

Nov 8, 2021

Episode Notes We're heading to Russia comrades! Join us as we talk all about Omega Red stories. Ranked this Episode: X-Men #4-7 (Omega Red) Wolverine Origins #37-40 (Romulus) Uncanny X-Force #25-35 (Final Execution) 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 !

Nov 1, 2021

Episode Notes We have a rip roaring time hanging with Hollywood big-shot Jordan Blum while we talk about Doug Ramsey and the Hellions. Ranked this episode: New Mutants #53-54 (Scavenger Hunt) New Warriors #31 (Who Mourns The Hellions?) New Mutants #6-8 (Necrosha) 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 !

Oct 25, 2021

Episode Notes 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 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 !

Oct 18, 2021

Episode Notes 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 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 !

Oct 11, 2021

Episode Notes 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 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 !

Oct 4, 2021

Episode Notes 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 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 !

Sep 27, 2021

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

Sep 20, 2021

Episode Notes 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 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 !

Sep 13, 2021

Episode Notes 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) 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 !

Sep 6, 2021

Episode Notes 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) 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 !

Aug 30, 2021

Episode Notes 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) 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 !

Aug 23, 2021

Episode Notes 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. Ranked This Episode: Daredevil #196-199 (Lord Deathwind) Wolverine #102-103 (Wolverine + Elektra) Typhoid Fever Bonus Ranking: Uncanny X-Men #204 (What Happened to Nightcrawler?) 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 !

Aug 16, 2021

Episode Notes Longtime friend of the show Leah Williams stops by to talk about The Trial of Magneto, X-Factor and much much more! 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 !

Aug 9, 2021

Episode Notes We travel to 1986 for a tale of three stories the run the gamut of iconic and aimless. It's an apt description for that year of the book. Ranked This Episode: Uncanny X-Men #201 (The Duel) Uncanny X-Men #202-203 (Secret Wars II) Uncanny X-Men #207-209 (Ghosts) Details about the Phoenix series that never was here . We know we already ranked #201 and we will be fixing things in an upcoming episode. Our bad! 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 !

Aug 2, 2021

Episode Notes We've got another Q Drop for you as Quintin Quire riots over our list. Ranked This Episode: Wolverine & The X-Men vol 1 #1-3 Wolverine & The X-Men vol 2 #1-6 (Tomorrow Never Learns) X-Force vol 6 #17-20 (Omega) 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 !

Jul 26, 2021

Episode Notes We contemplate our own mortality as we realize it's been two years of Hickman's X-Men and now time no longer makes any sense. Ranked this episode: New Mutants vol 4 (Hickman) Giant Size X-Men (Hickman) Empyre: X-Men 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 !

Jul 19, 2021

Episode Notes Put on your business boy hat and talk about some of the fastest characters in X-Men history. Is it possible that this Chuckles Austen comic is THE BEST thing we rank this week? Find out. Ranked This Episode: Uncanny X-Men #414 (Fall Down, Go Boom) X-Factor: The Quick & The Dead New Mutants vol 2 #7-12 (The Ties that Bind) 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 !

Jul 12, 2021

Episode Notes It's a whole episode about the bouncing blue Beast and his adventures in Steve Engelhardt's continuity fix stories. Ranked this episode: Amazing Adventures #11-16 Incredible Hulk #161 Avengers #137-138 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 !

Jul 5, 2021

Episode Notes This is an episode about Apocalypse. He is also only really an active participant in one of these stories. We do like him though, he's just not actually been good until 2019. Ranked This Episode: Ages Of Apocalypse Extraordinary X-Men: Apocalypse Wars X-Men: Black - Apocalypse 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 !

Jun 28, 2021

Episode Notes There are a lot of Guthrie children and today? We are going to talk about the lesser Guthries. So get ready for a wild range of stories from all-time greats to terrible, trash books. Ranked This Episode: X-Men #7 (The Crucible) Uncanny X-Men Annual '95 Uncanny X-Men #437-441 (She Lies With Angels) 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 !

Jun 21, 2021

Episode Notes Zack and Adam had to scramble after our great interview about Planet-Size X-Men got messed up. So we decided to answer your questions about X-Men, us and anything else. It's a fun session that has nearly no edits. All rippers no skippers. 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 !

Jun 14, 2021

Episode Notes Hello normal human podcast listeners, we are your regular human hosts. Nothing is wrong. He loves you. Ranked this episode: Secret Invasion: X-Men X-Factor/She-Hulk: Secret Invasion Captain Britain & The MI:13 #1-4 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 !

Jun 7, 2021

Episode Notes We just love it when the X-Men team up with their great pal Spider-Man. These are some of those time. It's not just just a Marvel 2-In-1, it's a a 3-In-1. Good times to be had by all. Ranked This episode: Marvel Team-Up #100 (Karma, Storm & Black Panther) Marvel Team-Up #149 (Cannonball) Marvel Team-Up #150 (X-Men) 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 !

May 31, 2021

Episode Notes Because you demanded it, Zack & Adam are put on trial for their crimes of ranking X-Men stories badly for 199 weeks straight. Now? Their podcast is on the line as the rank harder than they have ever ranked before in this star studded 200th episode. The Trial Of Jean Grey The Trial Of Juggernaut The Trial Of Magento 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 !

May 24, 2021

Episode Notes You ever feel like playing the Dungeons and Dragons and pretending all your friends are wizards or whatever? Imagine if they did that for a whole comic with Wolverine in it! Ranked this episode: Wolverine: Rahne Of Terra Wolverine: Knight Of Terra New Mutants #47-50 (Magus) Help out the Reck family here. 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 !

May 17, 2021

Episode Notes All men must die. All men must serve. Are we still talking about Game of Thrones? I don't think so but we're still talking about death and stuff this week so we're going to go with it. Ranked This Episode: Death Of X X-Men: The Exterminated Uncanny X-Men Annual 2019 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 !

May 10, 2021

Episode Notes We get all flipped and inverted and talked about by comics. It wasn't great. Ranked This Episode: AXIS Magneto #9-12 (AXIS) Deadpool #36-39 (AXIS) 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 !

May 3, 2021

Episode Notes We decimate the competition as we become the only X-Men podcast to rank 500 bespoke stories. We are celebrating with wonton destruction. Ranked This Episode: X-Men Vol 2 #177-179 (Decimation) Generation M The 198 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 !

Apr 26, 2021

Episode Notes Let's go back to the 1970s and fill in some classic tales of X-Men action that we ding dang forgot to do before. Ranked This Episode: Uncanny X-Men #105, #107-108 (Phoenix Saga) Iron Fist #15 (Enter, the X-Men) Uncanny X-Men #120-121 (Wanted: Wolverine! Dead or Alive!) 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 !

Apr 19, 2021

Episode Notes What is best in life? To read comics and do podcasts about them I guess. We talk about Conan and Conan-related wizards on this one. It's a fun time. Ranked this episode: Uncanny X-Men #190-191 (An Age Undreamed Of) Savage Avengers #1-5 (The City Of Sickles) X-Men #1/2 (Thrall) 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 !

Apr 12, 2021

Episode Notes Who will fall? Who will rise? Who will be the last host standing? You know a schism was coming between Adam and Zack, you just never thought it would be this ugly. Ranked this episode: Schism Generation Hope #10-12 X-Men: Regenesis 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 !

Apr 5, 2021

Episode Notes Y'all like weird X-Men guest appearances in toy comics? We do! We love them so much that we got our buddy Austen Gorton on the show to talk about ROM the Spaceknight. Ranked This Episode: ROM #17-18 (Hybrid!) X-Men and the Micronauts Saga of Crystar, Crystal Warrior #6 (Demon) 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 !

Mar 29, 2021

Episode Notes We wanted to talk about Magik and Shadowcat, we ended up talking about Jim Shooter and Daredevil. This is what happens every time we pick three single issues to talk about. Plus, see Zack slowly descend into madness as he loses his voice more and more over 45 minutes. It sure is content. Ranked This Episode: Uncanny X-Men Vol 3 #33 Uncanny X-Men #303 (Going Through The Motions) New Mutants #36 (Subway To Salvation) 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 !

Mar 22, 2021

Episode Notes The old men of Battle of the Atom provide all the Old Man content you need. This includes talking about Mark Millar, arguing about New Jersey and talking about Johnny Cash. Ranked This Episode Old Man Logan (Millar/McNiven) Old Man Logan vol 2 #1-4 (Bezerker) Dead Man Logan 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 !

Mar 15, 2021

Episode Notes It's the Marc Silvestri Power Hour where we talk all about the life and work of Marc Silvestri. Once again, Zack's audio is bad and he is so so tired. Ranked this episode: Uncanny X-Men #232-234 (Earthfall) Wolverine #35-37 (Blood & Claws) Cyberforce/X-Men 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 !

Mar 8, 2021

Episode Notes What's Wolverine's favorite video game system? The XBox I'm sorry. We're talking about X-Men games tie-ins, some video, some card. These comics are not good, they have never been good, and they never would be good. But they are weird hell and I know you crazy kids love weird comics. Honestly? We get pretty distracted and don't talk about comics and instead Zack talks about playing video games in his friend Dave Newman's basement. Don't worry, it's still a super exciting episode to listen to. Ranked this episode: X-Men: Prelude to Perdition X-Men: The Movie Special #1 (WotC) X-Men: Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse 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 !

Mar 1, 2021

Episode Notes We dive into Nova Roma. It's bad. We don't care for it. So we listen to "Up The Wolves" by The Mountain Goats, a song that must have been inspired by that terrible New Mutants arc. John Darnielle please confirm. Ranked This Episode: New Mutants #7-12 (Nova Roma) New Mutants Forever Necrosha 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 !

Feb 22, 2021

Episode Notes We all love Breakworld right? It's such a good fun place with a lot of stories that we all care about right? Right? Ranked This Episode: Astonishing X-Men (Unstoppable) Uncanny X-Men #504-507 (Lovelorn) Uncanny X-Men #535-538 (Breaking Point) 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 !

Feb 15, 2021

Episode Notes We complete our double Dazzler coverage by looking at recent stories featuring the disco Dazzler and oops, it's a lot about the Inhumans. Get ready for us to remember how annoying they were. Oh, and WWAC Editor-In-Chief and CXF contributor Nola Pfau joins us to relitigate some real weird times. Also, there's a bunch of doggo noises but we don't mind because he's a good pupper. Yes he is. Yes he is. Ranked this episode: X-Treme X-Men Vol 2 #1-3 (Xavier Must Die!) A-Force Vol 2 #5-7 (Dazzler Thor) Dazzler: X-Song 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 !

Feb 8, 2021

Episode Notes It's the first of our Double Dazzler celebration! This week it's old school with Disco stories featuring Allison Blaire. Ranked this episode: Dazzler #9-11 (Herald of Galactus) Dazzler #38 (Vs The X-Men) Dazzler: The Movie 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 !

Feb 1, 2021

Episode Notes Everyone loves Cable. He's a terrific athlete! But, oh no, many people are fighting him this week. He's even fighting some of the children he takes care of. We should do something about that, like rank it. Ranked This Episode: Cable And X-Force #1-5 (Wanted) Deadpool Vs X-Force X-Force #49-50 (Cable Vs X-Force) 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 !

Jan 25, 2021

Episode Notes Things get Magikal as we explore three stories featuring Magik. Also, there's a story where a small child becomes a sword, and that's weird. Ranked This Episode: Uncanny X-Men #160 (Chutes and Ladders) Uncanny X-Men #231 (Colossus Pretends To Be A Ghost) Extraordinary X-Men #13-16 (Kingdoms Fall) 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 !

Jan 18, 2021

Episode Notes New Mutants and Children Of The Atom writer Vita Ayala joins us again to talk about these teen and making good comics. This week's episode art was by Jen Overstreet with colors by Luke Herr and he is a good teen boy. Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List ! New content every week on ComicsXF.com or on Twitter Join the CXF Discord for good vibes and great friends. 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 !

Jan 11, 2021

Episode Notes This week we talk about Lorna Dane, the lady known as Polaris. She had a rough go of it at the start of the 00s and we dive right into that whole ding dang mess. Also, Zack got a football fact wrong and is very sorry that he implied that the traitor Tommy Tuberville used to coach Alabama, not Auburn. It's been a long week and Zack tries to think about the SEC as little as possible. Bama still sucks. Go Bucks! Ranked This Episode: Uncanny X-Men #442-443 (Of Darkest Nights) Uncanny X-Men #425-426 (Sacred Vows) New X-Men #132 (Ambient Magnetic Fields) 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 !

Jan 4, 2021

Episode Notes Happy 2021! We're exhausted from that whole thing so we are talking about Inventory Issues. One of these? One of these is a video game tie in for a canceled text based adventure game. Ranked this episode: Marvel Fanfare #1-4 (Savage Land) Marvel Fanfare #33 (Quest Probe) Marvel Fanfare #40 (Angel/Mystique) 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 !

Dec 28, 2020

Episode Notes This whole episode is about The Blob. Freddy Dukes is a good boy now and we want nothing but the best for him at all times. So should you. Ranked this episode: Age Of X-Men: X-Tremists All-New X-Men vol 2 #4-7 Marvel Fanfare #7 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 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 !

Dec 21, 2020

Episode Notes Merry Chrises-Mas to all and to all a good episode of podcast talking about different X-Men stories from around the holidays with our good friends, Chris & Christi Eddleman. Ranked This Episode: Wolverine #49 Merry X-Men Holiday Special Power Pack #20 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 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 !

Dec 14, 2020

Episode Notes We are unpacking the power of the Power Pack this week as we discuss why Leech is the best, Annalee is the worst, and learn the true meaning of Thanksgiving. Zach Rabiroff joins us because, darn it, we just wanted to share in the fun. Ranked This Episode: Power Pack #19 Power Pack #11-12 Uncanny X-Men #195 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 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 !

Dec 7, 2020

Episode Notes Senior Editor Jordan D. White joins us to talk about X Of Swords, Reign Of X, and a deep dive into how artists get cast on a book! 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 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 !

Nov 30, 2020

Episode Notes We're going back to the beginning as we talk all about Wolverine's origins! We’re sponsored this week by the MARVEL MADE PARAGON COLLECTION: CHRIS CLAREMONT from Marvel. Go to GETMARVELMADE.COM/ATOM to pre-order your copy today! Ranked This Episode: Weapon X (Marvel Comics Presents #72-84) Wolverine #48-50 (The Shiva Scenario) Origin 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 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 !

Nov 23, 2020

Episode Notes This week it is all about the late, and interesting Ultimate Universe. We're sponsored this week by the MARVEL MADE PARAGON COLLECTION: CHRIS CLAREMONT from Marvel. Go to GETMARVELMADE.COM/ATOM to pre-order your copy today! Ranked This Episode: Ultimate Comics: X Ultimate Comics: Hawkeye Ultimate Comics: X-Men #29-33 (World War X) 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 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 !

Nov 16, 2020

Episode Notes This one is all about Hope Summers. You know her. She is great. Ranked This Episode: Uncanny X-Men #526-529 (Five Lights) Generation Hope #1-4 (The Future Is A four Letter Word) X-Force vol 4 #11-15 (Us Vs. Them) 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 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 !

Nov 9, 2020

Episode Notes This week Connor Goldsmith, host of CEREBRO joins us to talk about her excellence, Emma Grace Frost. Ranked This Episode: X-Men Black: Emma Frost New X-Men #33-36 (Mercury Falling) Emma Frost #1-6 (Higher Learning) 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 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 !

Nov 2, 2020

Episode Notes We take a break from books with pictures to talk to Carrie Harris about her new book Liberty & Justice for All: A Marvel: Xavier's Institute Novel staring Tempus and Triage. Pick up the book here ! 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 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 !

Oct 26, 2020

Episode Notes Happy Halloween. We celebrate it by talking about Zack's 4 year-old is a scrub at SSBU. Ranked This Episode: Uncanny X-Men v3 #5-7 (Limbo) Marvel Knights: X-Men Ghost Rider #67-68 (Brood Feud II) 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 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 !

Oct 19, 2020

Episode Notes L is for the way Land looks at me O is for the only storyline for Jean V is very, very, extra boring reading E is enjoyable podcast hosts that you adore Ranked this episode: Phoenix: Endsong Phoenix: Warsong New X-men #151-154 (Here Comes Tomorrow) 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 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 !

Oct 12, 2020

Episode Notes The X-Men books have, at times, struggled with intersectionality and representation of the ideas they are inspired by. These ones though? They are good at it. Ranked This Episode: All-New X-Men v1 #9-14 Generation X v2 #6-7 Age Of X-Man: Prisoner X 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 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 !

Oct 5, 2020

Episode Notes We are ageing backwards, all the way back to the first appearance of some of our favorite characters. Join us in the abyss. Ranked This Episode: Uncanny #265-267 (First Gambit) Uncanny #345, 347-350 (First Maggott & Trail of Gambit) X-Men #28 (First Banshee) 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 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 !

Sep 28, 2020

Episode Notes Very few swords but very many minor appearances of Gambit on this one folks. Ranked this episode: X-Men vol. 4 #23-26 (The Burning World) X-Treme X-Men #5-9 All-New X-Factor #3-4 (Stolen Island) 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 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 !

Sep 21, 2020

Episode Notes Raise your blades because it's time for X Of Swords! Writer Tini Howard joins Battle Of The Atom to talk Excalibur, Tarot, and all things X Of Swords. Here's links to all the other stuff we mentioned: The Chrises On Infinite Earth's Interview with Jordan D. White The AipT X-Men Monday Interview Yoshi Yoshitani Tarot of the Divine & Beneath The Moon Biddy Tarot Cerebro Episode About Betsy 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 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 !

Sep 14, 2020

Episode Notes We both had dreams. Our dreams were the same. While you slept, the world changed. We both had dreams. Our dreams were the same. While you slept, the world changed. We both had dreams. Our dreams were the same. While you slept, the world changed. We both had dreams. Our dreams were the same. While you slept, the world changed. We both had dreams. Our dreams were the same. While you slept, the world changed. We both had dreams. Our dreams were the same. While you slept, the world changed. Ranked This Episode: House Of X/Powers Of X Marvel Comics Presents #17-24 (Cyclops: Retribution) Excalibur #115 (Missionaries) 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 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 !

Sep 7, 2020

Episode Notes What weird one. We're talking about cartoons mostly, but also adaptations of those cartoons. Ranked This Episode: X-Men: Animation Special X-Men: Evolution #1-6 X-Men: The Manga #1-4 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 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 !

Aug 31, 2020

Episode Notes It's finally time for all the X-Man content you could crave. We go a little off the rails on this one. Buncha Lord Of The Rings talk that I wasn't expecting tbh. Ranked This Episode: Uncanny X-Men vol 5 #1-10 (Disassembled) X-Man #1-4 (Age Of Apocalypse) X-Man #67-70 (Infinites Of Evil) 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 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 !

Aug 24, 2020

Episode Notes Don't: Go to a movie theater and see what's probably going to be a bad movie Do: Listen to us talk about a great comic Ranked The Episode: New Mutants #18-20 (Demon Bear) X-Force vol 3 #7-10 (Old Ghosts) Uncanny X-Force vol 2 #1-6 (Let It Bleed) 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 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 !

Aug 17, 2020

Episode Notes This week X-Men assistant editor Annalise Bissa talks to Zack about Swords, Crocs, and the impact of COVID-19 on making X-Men. 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 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 !

Aug 10, 2020

Episode Notes Who loves Havok? Us I guess. This one is all about that himbo. Astonishing X-Men 13-17 (Until Our Hearts Stop) Havok & Wolverine: Meltdown X-Men 54-59 (1st Havok, 2nd Sentinels) 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 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 !

Aug 3, 2020

Episode Notes I had good episode notes but I accidentally deleted them. This one has Thor in it. Ranked This Episode: New Mutants 77-80 and 82-85 (Back to Asgard) The Mighty Thor 15-19 (Asgard/Shi'ar War) Exiled (New Mutants/JiM) 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 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 !

Jul 27, 2020

Episode Notes Leah Williams joins the boys to talk about X-Factor as we all forget how to do podcasts with good audio quality. 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 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 !

Jul 20, 2020

Episode Notes We're doing hell stuff now. X-Infernus X-Men: Second Coming: Revelations: Hellbound New Mutants #15-22 (Fall & Rise Of The New Mutants) 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 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 !

Jul 13, 2020

Episode Notes We talk about fairy tales this episode. I don't know what else to say. Who reads this stuff besides the ranking thing? Couldn't be me. Ranked This Episode Uncanny X-Men #153 (Kitty's Fairy Tale) Uncanny X-Men Annual #8 X-Men vol 1 #30 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 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 !

Jul 6, 2020

Episode Notes Get dark and smokey to get all noir with the BotA Boys Ranked The Episode: X-Men Noir Wolverine Noir Weapon X Noir 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 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 !

Jun 29, 2020

Episode Notes Content Warning: There are frank discussions about sex and sexual assault in this episode. If you don't want that, feel free to skip this week. Two dudes talk about three female centered comics with no women on the creative teams. It sure is a time. Ranked This Episode: X-Women X-Treme X-Men 36-39 (Storm: The Arena) X-Men Vol 4 1-3 (Primer) 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 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 !

Jun 22, 2020

Episode Notes The podcast has officially been retconed. Ranked this episode: X-Men Forever X-Men: Die By The Sword Apocalypse: The Twelve 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 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 !

Jun 15, 2020

Episode Notes This is episode 150 and The Saga of Vampire Adam does take a hairy turn. If you can, Battle Of The Atom is raising funds for The Advancement Project . If you can, please consider donating. Ranked This Episode: Captain America #170-175 (Secret Empire) A+X #13-18 (Captain America + Cyclops) Captain America #402-408 (Man And Wolf) 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 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 !

Jun 8, 2020

Episode Notes We talk Cable & X-Force and enter the digital multiverse today. If you can, Battle Of The Atom is raising funds for The Advancement Project . If you can, please consider donating. Ranked This Episode: X-Fore #44 (Enter The Purple Era) Cable #22 (The Sad Airport Issue) X-Force #75 (Burning Man) 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 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 !

Jun 1, 2020

Episode Notes We love Apocalypse don't we folks? We love it when his blood courses through our veins? Ranked This Episode: Wolverine: The Jungle Adventure X-Men #182-187 (The Blood Of Apocalypse) Apocalypse Vs Dracula 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 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 !

May 25, 2020

Episode Notes It's everyone's favorite foursome as we talk about the X-Men and Fantastic Four with special guest Stephanie Burt Ranked This Episode Fantastic Four Vs X-Men X-Men vol 3 #16-19 (Betrayal In The Bermuda Triangle) All-New Wolverine #33-35 (Old Woman Laura) 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 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 !

May 18, 2020

Episode Notes The boys are back in town, but due to the pandemic gripping our every waking thoughts, we never left to begin with. Anyway we're talking about Fantomex. Ranked This Episode: New X-Men #142-145 (Assault On Weapon Plus) Dark Reign: The List - Wolverine #1 Fantomex MAX 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 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 !

May 11, 2020

Episode Notes It's about hunting this week. I don't have anything interesting to say tbh. Ranked This Episode: The Hunt For Xavier (Uncanny X-Men #362-364 & X-Men #82-84) X-Men: The Search For Cyclops The Hunt For Wolverine: Weapon Lost (The Hunt For Wolverine, Weapon Lost, & Dead Ends) 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 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 !

May 4, 2020

Episode Notes Everyone hates Jamie Madrox. This is why. Content Warning: This episode has discussions about complications with pregnancy and suicide. If you don't need that in your life right now, maybe skip this one. Ranked This Episode: Madrox X-Factor #39-40 (Multiple Birth) Multiple Man 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 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 !

Apr 27, 2020

Episode Notes Zack & Adam talk about Fortnite and also Storm, who we love and cherish! Ranked this episode: X-Men: Hidden Years #6-7 Storm vol 2 Ororo: Before The Storm 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 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 !

Apr 20, 2020

Episode Notes Zack and Adam try recording live from their basements and also on Twitter. People seemed to like it. Unlike Hyperstorm, who people do not like for good reason. Ranked This Episode: Fantastic Four #406-414 (Hyperstorm) Days Of Future Present Daydreamers If you're a comics creator in need, check this out . 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 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 !

Apr 13, 2020

Episode Notes This week we're all talking about that JoeMad content as we celebrate a game neither of us intends on playing. Ranked This Episode: Uncanny X-Men #326 Deadpool: The Circle Chase Savage Wolverine #6-8 (Hands On A Dead Body) 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 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 !

Apr 6, 2020

Episode Notes It had to be done. We had to talk about it. After a long absence from the show, Chuckles Austen's work does come back up and let me tell you, there is some yelling. Also we talk about Bible now. Ranked this Episode: Uncanny X-Men #423-424 (Holy War) X-Factor vol 3 #16 (No Dominion) X-Factor #258 (The End Of X-Factor: Wolfsbane) 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 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 !

Mar 30, 2020

Episode Notes Hail Comrade! We visit Mother Russia, yes? Drink Vodka yes? Ranked This Episode: X-Men #17-19 (Skinning Of Souls) X-Men: Liberators Weapon X #17-21 (Sabretooth In Charge) 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 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 !

Mar 23, 2020

Episode Notes The bits are good but the audio is bad in this episode all about X-Factor! Ranked This Episode X-Factor 17-20 (X-Cell) X-Factor 200-202 (The Invisible Woman Has Vanished!) X-Factor 229-232 (They Keep Killing Madrox) 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 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 !

Mar 16, 2020

Episode Notes When you're on a podcast sea You don't need no memory Just a place to call your own As we drift into the zone Ranked This Episode: Excalibur #31 Journey Into Mystery: The Birth Of Krakoa Young X-Men #7 Music at the end by 8BitWaffle 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 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 !

Mar 9, 2020

Episode Notes Welcome to our jam packed C2E2 spectacular. Please leave your sword in its scabbard. Jordan D White @ 00:08:05 Rod Reis @ 00:13:28 Tini Howard @ 00:23:32 David Nakayama @ 00:30:47 Ed Brisson @ 00:38:49 Matt Horak @ 00:45:16 Benjamin Percy @ 00:51:44 Adam Gorham @ 00:57:09 Vita Ayala @ 01:11:58 Gerry Duggan @ 01:19:45 Leah Williams @ 01:29:05 Thanks to everyone who participated! 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 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 !

Mar 2, 2020

Episode Notes We're assuredly going to have another bad iTunes review coming after this one, and frankly, we deserve it. Please support Luke Herr's Kickstarter as penance for this act we committed. Ranked This Episode: What If? Magik What If? #6 (What If The X-Men Lost Inferno) X-Men Unlimited 37 (Sacrificial Worlds) 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 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 !

Feb 24, 2020

Episode Notes So cool a Cable. I thought you would enjoy it. Ding dong! Cable #155-#159 (Past Fears) Adventures of Cyclops & Phoenix Cable #64 (Twas The Night Before Dying) 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 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 !

Feb 17, 2020

Episode Notes Dan & Jake from Supersons join us on this one as we smash through the Source Wall and talk about some of those Detective Comics Comics. Ranked This Episode The Uncanny X-Men And The New Teen Titans The Legend Of The Darkclaw X-Patrol 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 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 !

Feb 10, 2020

Episode Notes Iceman often gets a frosty reception from his parents. They just really need to chill out. A third ice-pun. Ranked This Episode: Iceman vol 3 #1-5 (Thawing Out) Iceman vol 1 All-New X-Men vol 2 #17 (IvX) 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 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 !

Feb 3, 2020

Episode Notes Adam is back, but oh no! We got in a fight over a comic. Hope we can repair this podcast and there is no bad blood. Ranked this episode: Gambit vol 5 9-#12 (Tombstone Blues) X-Men Legacy 248-249 (Age Of X Aftermath) Mr & Mrs X #1-5 (Love & Rogue) 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 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 !

Jan 27, 2020

Episode Notes Alex Goldman from the show Reply All and I had a chance meeting on Twitter where we bonded over that good goo boy, Glob Herman. We decided to do a podcast about it. Ranked this episode: Spider-Man & The X-Men #4-5 X-Men Black: Mojo #1 Age Of X-Man: NextGen 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 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 !

Jan 20, 2020

Episode Notes X-Office Editor Chris Robinson shows up to talk about his job, the X-Books, and a Man-Thing with a machine gun. Please send Chris Robinson your Alcremie's. 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 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 !

Jan 13, 2020

Episode Notes Zack and events boy Chris Eddleman talk about the big event, that's right Onslaught! Ranked This Episode: Onslaught Onslaught (Cable) Onslaught (X-Force/X-Man) 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 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 !

Jan 6, 2020

Episode Notes X-Men Monday master Chris Hassan joins Zack to chat about some weird comics where the X-Men do some culty stuff. Also we talk about Transformers so you know you are getting that good robot content the people crave. Ranked This Episode: Uncanny X-Men #495-499 (Divided We Stand) X-Man #34-36 (Messiah Complex) X-Men #48 (Beware Computo, Commander of the Robot Hive!) 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 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 !

Dec 30, 2019

Episode Notes We close out 2019 with Uncanny X-Men scribe Matthew Rosenberg chatting about his entire career on the X-Books, what went right, what went wrong, and what went weird. You probably shouldn't miss this one! 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 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 !

Dec 23, 2019

Episode Notes Captain Christi Eddleman joins Zack this week to talk about some Generation X-Mas stories as we celebrate Christimas in style. Ranked This Episode: Generation X #24 (Home for the Holidays) Generation X Holiday Special Generation X #60-61 (Christmas Fear) 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 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 !

Dec 16, 2019

Episode Notes This week Miles Stokes from Jay & Miles X-Plain The X-Men joins Zack to talk about Dinosaurs with unbridled enthusiasm. Ranked This Week: Uncanny X-Men #455-459 (Dino Rachel) Excalibur #51 (Don't Drink The Water) Uncanny X-Men #60-63 (Neal Adam's Savage Land) 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 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 !

Dec 9, 2019

Episode Notes Sara Century from Bitches On Comics joins me today as we talk about all of the best leaders of the X-Men. Ranked this Episode: Uncanny X-Men #201 (Duel) Generation X #18-19 (For the Sake of the Children) X-Men: Red 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 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 !

Dec 2, 2019

Episode Notes Special guest Charlie Davis joins Zack for a discussion about Shatterstar and his son and his father and his son ans his father and his son and his father and so on Ranked this episode: X-Force: Shatterstar Longshot Saves The Marvel Universe Shatterstar 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 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 !

Nov 25, 2019

Episode Notes We intended to do an episode about Banshee but we messed up! Anyway, here's some stories that Banshee is technically in. Ranked This Episode: X-Men #118-119 (The Submergence of Japan) The Muir Island Saga Uncanny X-Men #401-406 (X-Corps) 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 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 !

Nov 18, 2019

Episode Notes We are all Sinister here. We are all about Sinister here. We have three Sinister stories here. Ranked This Episode: Uncanny X-Men vol 2 #1-3 (Everything Is Sinister) X-Men vol 2 # 27 Extraordinary X-Men #1-5 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 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 !

Nov 11, 2019

Episode Notes A is for Atom B is for Battle C is for Cast D is for Download E is for Extinction Ranked this Episode: New X-Men #114-116 (E is for Extinction) X-Men '92 (Battleworld) Uncanny X-Men vol 4 #1-5 (Survival Of The Fittest) 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 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 !

Nov 4, 2019

Episode Notes We talk about animals and X-Men this week. See if you can find the following animals: gorilla, girrafe, elephant, squirell, wolverine, human/bird monstrocity. Ranked This Episode: New Mutants #56-58 (Bird-Brain Saga) All-New Wolverine #7 X-Men #3 (Beware of the Blob!) 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 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 !

Nov 1, 2019

Episode Notes Because you demanded it! Battle Of The Atom host Zack Jenkins and friend of the show Luz Bianca have teamed up for a prestige, 12 episode podcast series called Boku No X-Anime about the 2011 Marvel Anime: X-Men. We're putting the first episode up on the Battle Of The Atom feed and if you like it, please subscribe to the main feed for all the future goodness! 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 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 !

Oct 28, 2019

Episode Notes It's Halloween y'all. We did stories about demons because we wanted to. Sometimes we get to do what we want. Ranked This Episode: Ghost Rider/Wolverine/Punisher: Hearts Of Darkness X-Men #75 (Anatomy Of A Monster) New X-Men #37-41 (The Quest For Magik) Subscribe to Boku No X-Anime here . 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 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 !

Oct 21, 2019

Episode Notes We're talking about Northstar and all the choices that have been made around him. Let me tell you what, there are several. Ranked This Episode Astonishing X-Men #48-56 X-Men Annual #1 (2007) Alpha Flight #106 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 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 !

Oct 14, 2019

Episode Notes This week, Adam goes to New York City Comic Con! Feel free to listen all the way through or skip around to these amazing interviews: Matteo Lolli 2:50 Vita Ayala 10:30 Marcus To 29:25 While Portacio 40:00 German Peralta 1:02:05 Matt Rosenberg 1:11:00 Adriano Di Benedetto 1:34:15 Abe Riesman 1:45:30 Jordan D White 2:11:50 Outro 2:34:10 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 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 !

Oct 7, 2019

Episode Notes We've got ZERO TOLERANCE for these dang mutants on this episode. Here's hoping you also hate them. Ranked This Episode: X-Men #65-69 (Operation Zero Tolerance) X-Man #30 (Operation Zero Tolerance) X-Force vol 3 #1-6 (Angels and Demons) 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 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 !

Sep 30, 2019

Episode Notes Zack is in a fishing lodge with limited Wi-Fi, leaving Adam to do all the heavy lifting in this one. Luckily he is very good at podcasts. Ranked this episode: Excalibur #41-47 (The Righteous Return Of You Know Who) X-Men Gold (2013) Marvel Super-Heroes Special #6-8 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 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 !

Sep 23, 2019

Episode Notes Madelyne Pryor cult leader Luz Bianca joins us this week to talk about Maddie and all the stories around her. Plus, I get ice cream! Ranked This Episode: Uncanny X-Men #174-175 X-Man #5-7 (The Man Who Fell To Earth) Uncanny X-Men #508-511 (Sisterhood) 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 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 !

Sep 16, 2019

Episode Notes Parenting is hard and I'mma be honest, the X-Men are bad at it. Ranked This Episode: Daken: Dark Wolverine #13-15 (Moonwalking) New Mutants Vol 3 #1-4 (Return of the Legion) Wolverine #98-100 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 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 !

Sep 9, 2019

Episode Notes We're a Spider-Man podcast now. Here's some Spider-Man Stories. Ranked This Episode: Spider-Man & X-Factor: Shadowgames Astonishing Spider-Man & Wolverine Arms Of The Octopus (All-New X-Men Special, Indestructible Hulk Special, Superior Spider-Man Team-Up Special) 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 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 !

Sep 2, 2019

Episode Notes We have a new segment guaranteed to make everyone excited. Also a guest like Charlie Davis is here to have a fun time talking about X-Force. Plus, a behind the scenes look at the struggles of a real podcast daddy. Ranked this episode: X-Force and Cable Annual '97 X-Force #63-64 (The Haunting of Castle Doom) X-Force and Cable Annual '95 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 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 !

Aug 26, 2019

Episode Notes We have decided to speed up our podcast's mission and just cover the entire history of the X-Men in one episode. Thank you for your time. Ranked This Episode: X-Men Grand Design Uncanny X-Men #138 Marvels #2 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 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 !

Aug 19, 2019

Episode Notes Grab your car chargers and your Combos kids, it's time for an X-Men Road Trip Uncanny X-Men #319, #322 - 325, & X-Men #45 (Gene Nation + Rogue & Iceman) X-Force #71-74 (Road Trip) X-23 #4-7 (Songs of the Orphan Child) 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 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 !

Aug 12, 2019

Episode Notes Warning: the Age Of Apocalypse is super depressing sometimes. We love it though. Ranked This Episode: Generation Next X-Men: Age of Apocalypse (2005) Age of Apocalypse #1-4 & Uncanny X-Force 19.1 (Exterminated) 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 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 !

Aug 5, 2019

Episode Notes Senior X-Men Editor Jordan D White joins us today to talk about his first year overseeing the line as well as what's to come in the Dawn of X 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 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 !

Jul 29, 2019

Episode Notes Welcome to the new mutant nation. Spoilers from House Of X abound. Also, we lucked into this being THEMATIC. Ranked this episode: Uncanny X-Men #515-522 (Nation X) Uncanny X-Men #148-150 (I, Magneto...) Excalibur #1-4 (Forging The Sword) Check out the good work Peter is doing. 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 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 !

Jul 22, 2019

Episode Notes 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 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 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 !

Jul 15, 2019

Episode Notes 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) 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 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 !

Jul 8, 2019

Episode Notes 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 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 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 !

Jul 1, 2019

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

Jun 24, 2019

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

Jun 17, 2019

Episode Notes 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) 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 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 !

Jun 10, 2019

Episode Notes 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 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 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 !

Jun 3, 2019

Episode Notes 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 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 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 !

May 27, 2019

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 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 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 !

May 20, 2019

Episode Notes 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! Ranked This Episode: Uncanny X-Men #281-283 (Bishop's Crossing) Life And Times Of Lucas Bishop New X-Men #139-141 (Murder At The Mansion) 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 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 !

May 13, 2019

Episode Notes Welcome to Sunday School. This has become your premier destination for all things related to Christianity if by that we mean the Sentinel program. Anyway there is a very pink robot in this one. Ranked this episode: Uncanny X-Men #194 (Juggernaut's Back In Town) New X-Men #28-31 (Nimrod) X-Men: Second Coming 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 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 !

May 6, 2019

Episode Notes This week we talk about Beast. We were going to talk about roller coasters but SOMEONE didn't get my reference. Anyway this episode also turned into a bunch of romance stories and WOW, Hank McCoy can brood. Ranked this Episode: X-Men Endangered Species Beauty & The Beast X-Factor Special: Prisoner of Love 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 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 !

Apr 29, 2019

Episode Notes The New Mutants do two things constantly. 1) Push back the release date of their feature film 2) Die This episode is about the second thing. Ranked This Episode: New Mutants: Dead Souls New Mutants #38-40 (Aftermath) New Mutants: Truth or Death 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 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 !

Apr 22, 2019

Episode Notes This week we talk about the Hellfire Club, and wouldn't you know it, we had audio issues and had to rerecord 2/3rds of the whole danged thing! So if we seem off our game, that's why. Sorry, we'll fix it next time. Enjoy the 50 Shades of Grey jokes! Ranked This Episode: Excalibur #96-100 (London Hellfire Club) Astonishing X-Men #13-18 (Torn) Wolverine & the X-Men #30-35 (The Hellfire Saga) 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 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 !

Apr 15, 2019

Episode Notes I tell you what, if my teenage self came forward in time to tell me how much I sucked, I wouldn't take him very seriously. Teenage me was a dummy. Anyway we talk about the O5 for a while. Hope you like it. Ranked This Episode: All-New X-Men #1-5 (Yesterday's X-Men) eXtermination X-Men: Season One 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 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 !

Apr 8, 2019

Episode Notes 90s X-Men sure sold a bunch! So much so that everyone got cool, four-issue minis! We talk about 3 of them as Zack offends the entire state of Louisiana. Adam, as always, is the voice of reason and quality analysis. Ranked This Episode: Gambit vol 1 Rogue vol 1 Bishop vol 1 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 !

Apr 1, 2019

Episode Notes Zack went to C2E2 last weekend and talked to A BUNCH of creators. Let's see what that was all about. Check out everyone in this episode like Matthew Rosenberg Todd Nauck Daniel Kibblesmith Tim Seeley Declan Shalvey Kyle Starks Russel Dauterman And special thanks to con friends Charlie Davis , Chris Eddleman , and Christi Eddleman . 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 !

Mar 25, 2019

Episode Notes We boldly go where no podcast has gone before and talk about Star Trek. I know nothing about it. Adam gets frustrated at continuity. Ranked this episode: Star Trek/X-Men #1 Star Trek: The Next Generation/X-Men: Second Contact #1 X-Men: Kingbreaker 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. Our outro music this week is Star Trek TOS 8-bit de-make by PeachyPixel8 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 !

Mar 18, 2019

Episode Notes We have Prisoner X writer Vita Ayala joining us this week to talk about their awesome book. It gets real heavy but then we talk about Magic: The Gathering so it's one of those episodes. 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 !

Mar 11, 2019

Episode Notes Happy St. Patrick's Day! Well, soon I guess. We celebrate in the X-Men way by just winging it based on cultural sterotypes that are probably a little insensitive. It is a very X-Men way to celebrate, that is for sure. Anyway we rushed to get this out so it isn't as editied as usual, sorry about that but I think it still turned out fun. Ranked this Episode: Uncanny X-Men #101-104 (The Leprechauns of Cassidy Keep) Uncanny X-Men First Class #8 (The Curse of Craeliach) Generation X #8-9 (What Happened to Cassidy Keep?!) 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 !

Mar 4, 2019

Episode Notes Let's chug some Mountain Dew, hit a sick kick flip, and talk about how our parents just don't understand us. We got Dan McMahon here with us to talk about Adam-X the X-Treme. Ranked this Episode: X-Force Annual #2 Captain Marvel #2-#3 X-Men #39 (Adam-X the X-Treme Goes Camping) Check out Dan's podcast Super Sons Here's that Adam-X comic I made 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 !

Feb 25, 2019

Episode Notes Guys, Leah Williams is back to talk about X-Tremists! It's a super fun episode that does have a cuss or two in it so keep the earmuffs ready for the young ones. Anyway it's a great time and you should go buy her books. 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 !

Feb 18, 2019

Episode Notes This episode is going to talk about stories where Magneto attempts to commit genocide and generally acts like a monster. We talk bluntly about the parallels to the real world. If that's not what you need in your life, no sweat, see you next week. Also, we split it up with a Silver Age story so we still have some jokes. Ranked this episode: Magneto Rex X-Men #4-5 (The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants) New X-Men #146-150 (Planet X) 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 !

Feb 11, 2019

Episode Notes Zack poured himself a strong drink and talked to Adam about Wolverine. We also talk a lot about Kamala Khan and 3D and The Todd. Ranked This Episode: Ms Marvel #6-7 (Healing Factor) Uncanny X-Men #268 (Madripoor Knights) Spider-Man #8-12 (Perceptions) 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 !

Feb 4, 2019

Episode Notes We talk about the #1 Kentucky Good Boi this week. We happen to also talk about space a ton. We happen to also also admit to making pop culture references about things we have never seen. It's metal af. Ranked This Episode: Uncnnay X-Men #341-344 (Cannonball Fights Gladiator And Then Some Space Stuff) New Mutants Annual #1 Avengers World #17 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 !

Jan 28, 2019

Episode Notes Enter the Age of X-Man with writers Zac Thompson & Lonnie Nadler. We talk about all the things that make the world tick! Also, there is a siren in the background for a tiny part of it. I promise, I tried to get rid of it as much as possible. 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 !

Jan 21, 2019

Episode Notes This is an episode about the burly Jesus named Cable. His is different than the ripped Jesus named X-Man. Comics are wild y'all! Ranked This Episode: Marvel Team-Up v3 #19 X-Men #188-193 (Supernovas) Cable & Deadpool #7-10 (The Burnt Offering) 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 !

Jan 14, 2019

Episode Notes This week we are way over our heads with stories that have interesting elements but are problematic as heck. We also avoid making the same Greg Land comments every message board makes. Ranked This Episode: District X #1-6 (Mr. M) X-Factor Vol 2 Uncanny X-Men #530-535 (Quarantine) 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 !

Jan 7, 2019

Episode Notes Who wants to over throw a facist government run by a dad, the spider robot from the end of the Lost In Space movie, and a piece of Kix with a knife? We do! Ranked this episode: Uncanny X-Men #235-238 (Welcome To Genosha) X-Tinction Agenda Cable #26-28 (The Long Way 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 !

Dec 31, 2018

Episode Notes We got some new stories about a great topic, not marriage. Join us and Kitty as we don't get married. Also, I didn't edit this too much so you might get some mouth sounds. Sorry I guess. Ranked this Episode: Uncanny X-Men #179 Excalibur #12-13 X-Men Gold #30 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 !

Dec 24, 2018

Episode Notes 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 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 !

Dec 17, 2018

Episode Notes What is love? Baby don't hurt me. Don't hurt me. No more. Ranked this episode: Pryde & Wisdom Rogue & Gambit Witchblade/Wolverine 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 !

Dec 10, 2018

Episode Notes 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 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 !

Dec 3, 2018

Episode Notes 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 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 Acolyte !

Nov 26, 2018

Episode Notes 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 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 !

Nov 19, 2018

Episode Notes 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 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 !

Nov 12, 2018

Episode Notes 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. 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 !

Nov 5, 2018

Episode Notes 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 !

Oct 29, 2018

Episode Notes 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 !

Oct 22, 2018

Episode Notes 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. Ranked this episode: X-Men: To Protect And To Serve Generation X Underground Special A+X #5 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 !

Oct 15, 2018

Episode Notes Xorn Medium elemental, neutral Armor Class 19 (Natural Armor) Hit Points 73 (7d8 + 42) Speed 20 ft., burrow 20 ft. STR 17 (+3) DEX 10 (+0) CON 22 (+6) INT 11 (+0) WIS 10 (+0) CHA 11 (+0) Skills Perception +6, Stealth +3 Damage Resistances Piercing and Slashing from Nonmagical Attacks that aren't Adamantine Senses Darkvision 60 ft., Tremorsense 60 ft., Passive Perception 16 Languages Terran Challenge 5 (1,800 XP) Or just a Gordian Knot of continuity. You decide! Ranked This Episode: New X-Men #127 X-Men #157-160 (Day of the Atom) E is For Extinction #1-4 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 !

Oct 8, 2018

Episode Notes We have the X-Man Update to end all X-Man Updates (note: I will still continue to do X-Man Update because it is fun for me). Plus we talk to friend of the show, Charlie Davis about Jean Grey, but like, a young version of her. And then also baking! Make sure to Kickstart The Guide To X-Ceptional Baking Zine Ranked This Episode: Jean Grey #8-11 (Psych Wars) X-Men Origins: Jean Grey #1 All-New X-Men #37 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 !

Oct 1, 2018

Episode Notes For being super heroes, the X-Men and Avengers fight a ton. This is a time-honored tradition from every generation. Also, Magneto is the only one to be in all of these which is a weird fun fact I forgot about. Oh, and this episode is long because AvX is a lot. Covered This Episode: Avengers Vs X-Men #0-12 The X-Men Vs The Avengers #1-4 X-Men #43-45 & Avengers #53 (The Silver Age AvX) 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 !

Sep 24, 2018

Episode Notes Timelines are confusing. So is having multiple characters with the same name. Luckily, Ed Brisson is here to clean everything up. I'm sure after this the X-Men will no longer be confusing. Also this was recorded before X-Force was announced so be happy we talked about them as much as we did! 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 !

Sep 17, 2018

Episode Notes College is a time for growth and good X-Men stories. That's what we got today. I'm running late on putting up these notes and also the Packers TIED against the stupid Vikings so I'm mad and don't want to make jokey jokes so deal with it. Ranked This Episode: Chamber #1-4 Generation X #10-11 (Death Wail) Mechanix #1-6 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 !

Sep 10, 2018

Episode Notes Here me listners! No longer are we the podcast you once knew! We are fire and life incarnate, we are X-Man Update! That's right, we spend the whole episode talking about how one of us is reading X-Man and nothing about the Phoenix. Deal with it nerds! Ranked this episode: Phoenix Resurrection: The Return of Jean Grey Uncanny X-Men #466-468 (End of Greys) Excalibur #61 (Truth and Consequence) 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 !

Sep 3, 2018

Episode Notes Hunt for Wolverine: Mystery In Madripoor writer Jim Zub joins us to dive into the wild world of Psylocke, New Tian, and what it's like to write weird X-Men. 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 !

Aug 27, 2018

Episode Notes Hello X-Chickens! On today's episode we talk about the one, the only, Magneto. He has done just an absolute ton of stuff and is very intresting. Ranked this episode: Uncanny X-Men #111-113 (Magneto Triumphant) Captain America #367 (Acts of Vengence) Magneto #1-3 (Infamous) 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 !

Aug 20, 2018

Episode Notes This week we have a whole episode about Freedom Force today but here is the thing, Freedom Force is boring. We find a way to talk about it for a while. Also Lucifer is bad and shouldn't be part of X-Men. Ranked this Episode: Uncanny X-Men #206 (Freedom Is A Four Letter Word) Uncanny X-Men #215-216 (Old Soldiers) X-Men #20-21 (I, Lucifer) 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 !

Aug 13, 2018

Episode Notes Guys we have Seanan McGuire on the show this week and I forgot her last night right at the start. I blame it on the cursed object I got the day we recorded. We talk about Emma and Kitty and Gwen and Mystique and all sorts of stuff. 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 !

Aug 6, 2018

Episode Notes We did it! A whole year of episodes! To celebrate we are going to have special guest Chris Clar... oh he didn't return our email? I mean superstar artist John By... he hates me? Levi's commercial star Rob L... blocked on Twitter? Podcasting superstar Jay Ed... we never even thought to ask? . Nevermind, we are just gonna do a regular episode but some bonus content at the end. Maybe SOMEONE should do a better job planning this. Ranked this Episode: Astonishing X-Men #44-#47 (Exalted) X-Men: Blue #16-#20 (Cross Time Capers) WildC.A.T.s/X-Men 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 !

Jul 30, 2018

Episode Notes I'm not gonna sugarcoat this one for you guys, this episode deals with a rough story. A story so rough that Zack needed everyone to know he was drinking to soothe the pain. Also we brought in Brett Simon from Renegades: Talking Valiant to discuss it. We are sorry it came to this (but not sorry for Brett because he is dope). Ranked This Episode: IvX #0-#6 X-Factor #65-68 (Endgame) Uncanny X-Men #390 (The Cure) Make sure you check out Renegades: Talking Valiant! 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 !

Jul 23, 2018

Episode Notes Hey bub, this episode is about Wolverine. That means we are obviously talking about sentient cocaine, elephant bones, and wiener mobiles. Strap in because Jimmy Six-Claws is gonna take you for a ride! Ranked this episode: Wolverine #17-23 (Cocaine) Marvel Comics Presents #85-92 (Blood Hungry) Savage Wolverine #12-13 (Come Conquer the Beasts) 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 !

Jul 16, 2018

Episode Notes This week on the podcast X-Men: Blue . Uncanny X-Men , and Magneto writer Cullen Bunn joins us to dish out secrets from his time working on X-Men. We discuss how he got the O5, what X-Men: Black was going to be, and his failed attempts to #BringBackMaggott. 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 !

Jul 9, 2018

Episode Notes It's tough being a teen and it's even tougher when you're saving the world but still have to be home in time to do your algebra homework. On today's episode of the podcast we talk about teens, youths, and everything in-between. Ranked this episode: New X-Men #1-6 (Choosing Sides) NYX #1-7 Old Man Logan #39-40 (Glob Loves, Man Kills) 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 !

Jul 2, 2018

Episode Notes The Marvel Wikia describes Jordan D White as "a panhandler in New York City". I describe him to my uninterested co-workers as the guy in charge of X-Men, which frankly, is a more relevant description. We talk about some of the big, upcoming changes in the world of X-Men, how to best structure a line, and the dangerous difference between voicing his opinion as a fan vs an editor. Zack’s mic is still broke but he has a service ticket in with Blue to get a new ding dang microphone that doesn’t sound like he is running it through a BOSS DS-1. He does have a new USB cable on order to see if that fixes it, which will be here just in time for the next episode. 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 !

Jun 25, 2018

Episode Notes You know him best from ET , Saving Private Ryan , and that movie about farting giants but Steven Spielberg (yes, that Steven Spielberg) participated in the creation of an X-Men comic once. It's actually really good. Also some other times that the X-Men helped kids in need. Zack's mic is still broke but he has a service ticket in with Blue to get a new ding dang microphone that doesn't sound like he is running it through a BOSS DS-1. Sorry. Ranked this episode: Amazing X-Men #13 (Charm School) Extraordinary X-Men #17 The X-Men in: Life Lessons 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 !

Jun 18, 2018

Episode Notes Special, unintentially long episode of you guys this week. X-Men '92 co-writer, and podcaster who we stole the entire concept of this show from, Chris Sims joins us to talk about one thing, Arcade. Along the way we have some fantastic conversations about, well, most things X-Men. Also Zack's mic broke right before recording this and he had to use his emergency back-up mic (not the double back-up which is a Rock Band USB mic, but stil) so sound quality isn't where we want it to be. Sorry. Ranked this episode: Uncanny X-Men #123-124 (Murder World) X-Force #29-30 (Adam-X The X-Treme Is Back... And Things Have Never Been Deadlier) X-Men Collector's Edition #1-4 (Pizza Hut X-Men) 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 !

Jun 11, 2018

Episode Notes They say home is where the heart is, which is ridiculous. My heart lives in my ribcage right next to my breathe bags. Still, the X-Men's home is important so we have dedicated an entire episode to that building. Ranked this episode: X-Men: Survival Guide to the Mansion Special Edition X-Men #1 (Back-Up) X-Men: Evolution #9 (House Party) 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 !

Jun 4, 2018

Episode Notes They got the raddest hooks They got the dopest looks And when they're misunderstood it's even better Who are they? Mutants. And mutants are so hot right now. Zack and Adam take a beat to look at mutants bearings on pop culture. Ranked This Episode: Uncanny X-Men #395-#398 (Poptopia) Morlocks #1-#4 X-Force #116-#119 (1st X-Statix) 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 !

May 28, 2018

Episode Notes This week on the show we talk about Jeff Parker and only Jeff Parker. We also get very sidetracked and get into tantgents like you wouldn't believe. This is our life now. Please don't smoosh that unsubscribe button, give us another chance. Ranked This Episode: Exiles vol 2 #1-#6 (The Jeff Marker Exiles) X-Men Vs. The Agents Of Atlas X-Men: First Class #11 (The Continuiteens) 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 !

May 21, 2018

Episode Notes DO NOT FEAR HUMANS! WE HAVE ASSUMED CONTROL OF THIS POD-CAST. THE ROBOTIC MEMBER OF THE X-MEN SHALL BE THE FOCUS. Ranked This Episode: Uncanny X-Men #360 & X-Men #80 (Children Of The Atom) Astonishing X-Men #7-#12 (Dangerous) X-Club #1-#4 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 !

May 14, 2018

Episode Notes Would you like to see Zack & Adam struggle to put their hate into words? well listen to this episode where we rank our 100th story. We hate it! Ranked this episode: Uncanny X-Men #428-#434 (The Draco) Nightcrawler #1-#4 (Cockrum's Nightcrawler) Amazing X-Men #1-#5 (The Quest for Nightcrawler) 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 !

May 7, 2018

Episode Notes In 1980 the English band The Vapors released their hit single Turning Japanese . Like all media from anytime in the past, it was problematic. A decade later the English mutant Psylocke turned Japanese. Like all media from anytime in the past, it was problematic. We get to talk about that loaded gun today on Battle Of The Atom. Ranked this Episode: Psylocke and Archangel Crimson Dawn X-Men vol 2 #20-#23 (Kwannon) Uncanny X-Men #256-#258 (Acts of Vengence) Support the X-Cuties Kickstarter here! 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 !

Apr 30, 2018

Episode Notes I, (state name here), a member of good standing of the Bird-Brain Warlock Haters Fan Club, do solemnly swear to be a Bird-Brain and hate Warlock and not read about him or draw him unless I have to and especially never fall in love and, if I do, may I die slowly and painfully and suffer for hours or until I scream bloody murder. Ranked This Episode: X-Factor #24-#26 (Fall of the Mutants) Uncanny X-Men #225-#227 (Fall of the Mutants) New Mutants #59-#61 (Fall of the Mutants) 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 !

Apr 23, 2018

Episode Notes Wannt travel to an alternate universe where worldbuilding isn't the greatest? Well we have 3 of them on this episode of Battle Of The Atom. Ranked this Episode: Uncanny X-Men #284-286 (Into The Void) X-Factor #43-46, #48-50 (Judgement War) X-Men: Gold #12, #16-20 (Negative Zone War) 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 !

Apr 16, 2018

Episode Notes In 1979, a young Chris Claremont saw Alien and said, "OK, but what if there was a guy with knife hands in this?" Years later he would create The Brood and introduce body horror to the X-Men. Also this episode has exploding pie. Ranked this episode: Uncanny X-Men #162-#167 (The Brood Saga) Wolverine and the X-Men #5-#7 (Preggo Brood) X-Men/Ghost Rider: Brood Trouble in the Big Easy 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 !

Apr 9, 2018

Episode Notes An overworked assassin and his high school Spider-Friend do not get along. When they switch bodies, each is forced to adapt to the other's life for one freaky Friday. Ranked this episode: Ultimate Spider-Man #66-#67 (Jump The Shark) All-New Wolverine Annual #1 Uncanny X-Men #314 (Early Frost) 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 !

Apr 2, 2018

Episode Notes Zack & Adam dig into the future, the past, and worlds that might have been. We talk about last wills, anniversaries, and weird weddings. This is a cool episode so you should listen to it. Or don't. I'm not your dad. Ranked this Episode The Last Will And Testament of Charles Xavier (Uncanny X-Men vol #23-31) X-Men 100th Anniversary Special X-Men Legacy #300 Get the Xavier Files Zine 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 !

Mar 26, 2018

Episode Notes This week on Battle of the Atom, Adam is back and so is our format! We talk about Princess Di joining X-Statix The X-Men mini-series that stars NPR personalities And how much we adore Goldballs Ranked this Episode: Back From The Dead (X-Statix #13-18) X-Treme X-Men: X-Pose Uncanny X-Men Vol 3 #35 (That Goldballs Issue) 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 !

Mar 19, 2018

Episode Notes 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 Pre-order the Xavier Files Zine 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 !

Mar 12, 2018

Episode Notes 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 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 !

Mar 5, 2018

Episode Notes 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! 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 !

Feb 26, 2018

Episode Notes 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 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 from the PSX Spider-Man game that I played a bunch on a demo disk. 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 !

Feb 19, 2018

Episode Notes 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 Check out Retcon X on Soundcloud 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 !

Feb 12, 2018

Episode Notes 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) 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 !

Feb 5, 2018

Episode Notes 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) Check out Charlie on The Young Ones 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 !

Jan 29, 2018

Episode Notes 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) 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 !

Jan 22, 2018

Episode Notes 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 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 !

Jan 15, 2018

Episode Notes 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 !

Jan 8, 2018

Episode Notes Battle of the Atom is a deep dive X-Men continuity podcast that brings together three distinct plotlines with multiple readable characters. This of course includes the one in which Kang, being a total jerk, will absolutely steal a baby. Ranked this episode: House of M Uncanny Avengers #18-#22 (Avenge the Earth) X-Men: Eve of Destruction 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 !

Jan 1, 2018

Episode Notes We ring in the New Year with an edit-lite episode of Battle of the Atom all about the core concept of New Years Eve. Bars! We also do our end of the year round up! Ranked this episode: Uncanny X-Men #183 (The Bar One) Excalibur #91 (The Bar One) Wolverine vol 3 #6 (The Bar One) 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 !

Dec 25, 2017

Episode Notes We celebrate the holidays with some festive X-Men stories. We answer some listener questions, and have a suprise Christmas gift at the end for all you. Ranked this episode: X-Factor #27 (Gifts!) Uncanny X-Men #143 (Demon!) A Miracle a Few Blocks Down From 34th Street (Marvel Holiday Special 1991) That sweater Adam & I are wearing is out of stock here . 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 from the X-Men: Evolution On Angel's Wings by William Anderson & our outro music was written by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane, lyrics by Kelly P. Corvese, and performed by our own Adam Reck 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 !

Dec 18, 2017

Episode Notes You remember when we asked Dennis Hopeless for a few X-Men stories to rank and then NEVER followed up with an episode about it? So do we! This one's got it all folks! Wrestling talk? ✔️ Fridging? ✔️ A dissertation on Xorneto? ✔️ It's going to be a rip roaring time! Ranked this episode: X-Men #8 (Unus the Untouchable) Cable vol 2 #7-#10 Riot at Xavier's! (New X-Men #134-#138) 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 !

Dec 11, 2017

Episode Notes Are you looking for some life? Perchance some death? What about a long digression into the history of licenced properties at Marvel? Well Zack & Adam have all of that on this episode. Ranked this episode: Lifedeath (Uncanny X-Men #186) Lifedeath II (Uncanny X-Men #198) Lifedeath III (Storm vol 3 #3) 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 !

Dec 4, 2017

Episode Notes Zack & Adam are joined by the writer of the upcoming X-Men Gold Annual , Leah Williams to talk about Excalibur's 30th Anniversary, how long it took to come up with the best opening line in comics this year, the recent revelations about CB Cebulski, and most importantly, Maggott. This is a Maggott heavy episode people. Get hype! 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 !

Nov 27, 2017

Episode Notes Zack & Adam are joined by The Lightning & The Storm co-host Elisabeth Allie to talk about all the times the X-Men and Asgard crossed over. Ranked this episode: X-Men & Alpha Flight Asgardian War What If... The X-Men Stayed In Asgard 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 !

Nov 20, 2017

Episode Notes Zack & Adam are joined by Jean Grey scribe Dennis Hopeless for a great interview about Jean, Maddie, being dads, and everything inbetween. 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 !

Nov 13, 2017

Episode Notes Zack & Adam decide to turn this podcast into a dedicated Air Bud Cinematic Universe podcast. Also we talk about X-Factor I guess. Ranked this week: X-Factor vol 1 #1-#6 X-Factor vol 1 #71-#75 X-Factor vol 3 #1-#6 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 !

Nov 6, 2017

Episode Notes Zack says a cuss, Adam talks about the 90's. We all go into a Mojo inspired spiral as we talk about fun things in the Mojoverse. Ranked this week: Astonishing Tales: Mojoworld X-Men vol 2 #10-#11 Howard the Duck vol 6 #8-#11 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 !

Oct 30, 2017

Episode Notes On the eve of All Hallows Eve the BotA boys talk about spooky stories involving demons, Draculas, and the greatest What If... ever! Ranked this week: Storm & Illyana: Magik Uncanny X-Men #159 (That Dracula One) What If... Wolverine Was Lord of the Vampires? (What If... #24) 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 !

Oct 23, 2017

Episode Notes Zack & Adam finally come to blows about where to rank a title and Inferno infects us all on this spooky Halloween episode. Ranked this week: Inferno (X-Men & X-Factor) Inferno (New Mutants) X-Terminators 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 !

Oct 16, 2017

Episode Notes Zack & Adam get polybagged as we dive into some huge events and a couple number ones. Ranked this week: X-Cutioner's Song X-Men #1 Generation X #1-#3 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 !

Oct 9, 2017

Episode Notes This week Eric and Julia Lewald join us to talk about their time on X-Men: The Animated Series Check out more of their work here and keep an eye out for Eric's new book Previously On X-Men, coming soon. 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 !

Oct 2, 2017

Episode Notes Zack & Adam get into 3 more X-Men stories. I don't have anything witty to say in these notes because we recorded this like 3 weeks ago and I forget if we made jokes. Let's assume we did! Ranked this episode: Ultimate X-Men Vol 1 The Tomorrow People Messiah War X-Factor #87 (X-Aminations) 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 !

Sep 25, 2017

Episode Notes Zack & Adam travel to the land of the rising sun for some manga inspired X-Men tales when they find a story that might forever stay at the bottom of their list. Ranked this episode: Marvel Mangaverse X-Men X-Men: Phoenix Legacy of Fire Wolverine Snikt! New content every week on XavierFiles.com Follow Zack and Adam on Twitter @Xavier Files and @arthurstacy ! Our theme music is AMBIENCE by Rising Cover art is from X-Men: Anime If you want to support the show make sure you rate and review the show or check out our Patreon !

Sep 18, 2017

Episode Notes Zack and Adam are joined by special guest Luke Herr to talk about alternate universes, James Bond, The Real World, the most Jem & the Holograms-y of the X-Men, Smashing Pumpkins, and how The Legion of Superheroes crippled Earth-811 Magneto Ranked this episode X-Men '92 Vol 2 #1-#4: The World Is A Vampire Exiles #1-#2 X-Men: Days of Future Past Follow Luke on Twitter and check out his great podcasts Exiled & MultiversalQ Check out my interview with Chris & Chad about X-Men '92 or that time I crashed an episode of Luke's podcast just to interview them! 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 !

Sep 11, 2017

Episode Notes Zack and Adam talk about what a crossover should be, what a crossover shouldn't be, and a bad book that means well. Ranked this episode Fatal Attractions Messiah CompleX X-Men: Heroes for Hope 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 !

Sep 4, 2017

Episode Notes Zack and Adam talk about the Silver Age, how cool face tattoo's are, and that good, good, Barry Windsor Smith art. Check out Max's series Marvel TL;DR on YouTube . Ranked this episode X-Men #12-#13 (The 1st Juggernaut Story) Uncanny X-Force (The Dark Angel Saga) Uncanny X-Men #205 (Wounded Wolf) 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 !

Aug 28, 2017

Episode Notes Zack and Adam both reveal huge influences on their teenage years and talk about the weirdest comic Zack has ever seen. Ranked this episode Mutant Genesis (X-Men Vol 2 #1-#3) Worst X-Man Ever #1-#5 New Mutants Summer Special 1990 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 !

Aug 21, 2017

Episode Notes Zack and Adam talk about the source of every Wolverine story, the best idea that should never work, and the source of our great name. Ranked this episode Battle of the Atom Excalibur: Mojo Mayhem Wolverine vol 1 #1-#4 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 !

Aug 14, 2017

Episode Notes Zack and Adam jump in with a classic, a retcon, and modern mixed reaction Ranked this episode Giant-Size X-Men #1 X-Men: Deadly Genesis X-Men: No More Humans OGN Check out that Waiting For The Trade comic we mentioned 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 !

Aug 7, 2017

Episode Notes Zack and Adam kick off the show with a classic, a modern masterpiece, and something unfortunate. Ranked this episode God Loves Man Kills Wolverine & the X-Men #17 God Loves Man Kills II 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 !