Battle Of The Atom: An X-Men Podcast

Zachary Jenkins & Adam Reck
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Battle Of The Atom: An X-Men Podcast

Join Zack and Adam from ComicsXF as they battle to decide the best and worst X-Men stories of all time!

  1. 6 DAYS AGO

    D'Onofrio Style + Megacon 2025

    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!

    1h 9m

  2. FEB 10

    The 1000th Story

    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!

    58 min

  3. FEB 3

    Sweeps Week with Connor Goldsmith

    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!

    1h 52m

  4. JAN 27

    Humans Do Suck

    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!

    52 min

  5. JAN 20

    Sacre Blu Superman

    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!

    1h 2m

  6. JAN 13

    Carey On

    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!

    53 min

  7. JAN 6

    Orphan & Nannymaker

    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!

    58 min

  8. 12/30/2024

    We Have Magneto At Home

    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!

    58 min
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Join Zack and Adam from ComicsXF as they battle to decide the best and worst X-Men stories of all time!

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  • Creator
    Zachary Jenkins & Adam Reck
  • Years Active
    2017 - 2025
  • Episodes
    383
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Copyright Zachary Jenkins & Adam Reck 2023
  • Show Website
    Battle Of The Atom: An X-Men Podcast

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