Battle Of The Atom: An X-Men Podcast
A battle for the best X-Men stories
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 55 minutes
- Episodes
- 407
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
Ep.265 - Sparkly Crystal Diamond Claws
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 #…
Ep.264 - Dinosaur Hunting (For The Right Reasons)
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 …
Ep.263 - A Square Of Raw Power
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 Ask…
Ep.262 - Sheath Our Blades
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 (Or…
Ep.261 - That's A Baby
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:
- Excalibu…
Ep.260 - I Just Eat His Salsa
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.
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Ep.259 - SSRI Hot Chick
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 & …
Ep.258 - Battle Of The Atom: Across The Magnetosphere
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
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Ep.257 - Worried For Your Safety
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 …
Ep.256 - A Place Called Awoogah
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 #…
Ep.255 - The Gallagher Family Tree
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…
Ep.254 - The Year Of Maggott with Alex Paknadel
Episode Notes
X-Men Unlimited writer Alex Paknadel helps celebrate the year of Maggott as he and Zack talk about the just wrapped arc!
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Ep.253 - Legion's Secret Wars
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 Episod…
Ep.252 - Circus Crimes
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 Episo…
Ep.251 - Daddyboros
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 …
Ep.250 - Chunks Of Wolverine
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 Vo…
Ep.249 - Zaladane, She Who Speaks
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…
Ep.248 - Whassup!
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-…
Ep.247 - Four Page Knife Fight
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)
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Ep.246 - The Deep Backstory Of Cr+reee
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 fan…