Battle Of The Atom: An X-Men Podcast

Episode Notes

By listening to this episode, you commit not to be mad at these two who are trying their best and to not yell at them. When you yell at them this is who you are yelling at: (,,•᷄﹏‎•᷅,,).

Ranked This Episode:

• Uncanny X-Men #329-330 (Warriors of the Ebon Night)
• Children of the Atom #1-6
• Excalibur #8 (Excalibur's New York Adventure)

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Our theme music is Junk Factory from the X-Men Arcade Game by Seiichi Fukami, Yuji Takenouchi, Junya Nakano, and Ayako Hashimoto.

Cover art is by Adam Reck after Dave Cockrum with logo design by Mikey Zee

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Episode Notes

It is Halloween and that means we are, yes, talking about the 2004 movie Van Helsing starting Hugh Jackman and Kate Beckinsale, as well as the 2020 series Hellstrom starting Tom Austen and Sydney Lemmon. If people are looking for insights into those pieces of media instead of two dudes saying "lol remember that" turn elsewhere.

Ranked This Episode:

• Uncanny X-Men Annual #6 (Blood Feud!)
• Wolverine vol 2 #11-16 (The Gehenna Stone Affair)
• Generation X/Dracula Annual

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Our theme music is Junk Factory from the X-Men Arcade Game by Seiichi Fukami, Yuji Takenouchi, Junya Nakano, and Ayako Hashimoto.

Cover art is by Adam Reck after Dave Cockrum with logo design by Mikey Zee

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It's our NYCC 2026 Special featuring artist alley chats with Ben Percy, Dan Panosian, Matteo Della Fonte, Federico Vicentini, David Messina, Netho Diaz and Mario Santoro! You know who isn't in this episode? Zack, who was at home not at NYCC.

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Episode Notes

This episode is dedicated to the memory of our friend Bobby Twoguys. He is still alive, but we're just thinking about him. Specifically thinking about how to get a rise out of that scoundrel.

Ranked This Episode:

• X-Men Misfits
• Way of X
• X-Factor #250 - 256 (Hell on Earth War)

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This week writer Jonathan Hickman (House of X, Secret Wars, Ultimate Spider-Man, East of West) joins us to talk about Midnight X-Men, his new horror infused book out October 7th. He talks about his approach to Vampires, the horror of late-stage capitalism, the minimalization of X-Men, the unexpected ending of his Ultimate Universe, how him and Alan Moore are alike, the impending AI apocalypse, the "great man" theory, and (of course) the ending of his time on X-Men.

Y'all, it's a good one.

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Episode Notes

It's a Longshot one. We all like Longshot in theory but do we like him in practice? I oft ponder this. The man has an iconic, consistent pedigree but has it served him and the greater X-Men universe well? I don't know man, but it keeps me up at night.

Ranked This Episode:

• Longshot vol 2
• Marvel Fanfare vol 2 #4-5
• Ultimate X-Men #54-57 (The Most Dangerous Game)

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Episode Notes

Please we are begging you, join the Patreon and listen to us talk about the X-Men movies. We're all out of ideas and shoveling things in front of you asking "do you like this?" It's been 9 years, we have no idea how to grow into a more commercially viable podcast. Possibly we should have made the show more accessible? But in reality, we are much like the comics we are discussing today, not for the consumption of mass audiences even if we desperately want to be.

Ranked This Episode:

• X-Men Movie Prequel
• TV Guide July 15-21 2000
• X-Men the Movie Iconnect Special #1

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Episode Notes

This is not a new Twitter fan account for the messiest Inhuman, but instead just a podcast episode where we try and unravel which crystal is on Storm's shirt.

Ranked This Episode:

• X-Men v2 #60-61
• X-Men: Worlds Apart #1-4
• X-Men v3 #30-37 (Proto-Mutants)

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Episode Notes

The thing about Joe Casey is that he figured out how to make actual money so he can just make comics for fun. Would that all of comics be this lucky.

Ranked This Episode:

• Uncanny X-Men #400, 407-409
• X-Men: Children of the Atom #1-6
• Weapon X-Men vol 2 #1-5

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Episode Notes

Cormac McCarthy was quoted writing All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes. But he didn't use quotation marks because he wants to be difficult.

Ranked This Episode:

• Wolverine: Weapon X #16
• Nightcrawler Vol 4 #7
• X-Men Unlimited vol 1 #36

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Episode Notes

In this episode, Adam finally reads Civil War

Ranked This Episode:

• Civil War: X-Men
• Wolverine vol 3 #42-48 (Vendetta)
• X-Factor vol 3 #8-9 (Civil War)

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Episode Notes

Man that song sucks, I'm listening to it right now. Possibly this is the only time I've deliberately listened to Kokomo. This is what happens when you get into a fight with Brian Wilson.

Ranked This Episode:

• X-Men '92 #5
• Uncanny X-Men #356 - 357
• Colossus # 1

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Episode Notes

There's a new Spider-Man and we are an X-Men podcast, therefore we are doing an episode about all the cameo's in Spider-Man and how they relate to X-Men. Sometimes when I write this copy I put a lot of effort into it, this is not that time.

Ranked This Episode:

• Amazing Spider-Man #282
• World War Hulk: X-Men #1-3
• Punisher vol. 6 #16-17

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Episode Notes

Warning, this episode contains hot Beak. If you don't want hot Beak, and I do not, please find a different podcast.

Ranked This Episode

• Wolverine & The X-Men: Alpha and Omega
• New Warriors vol 4 #1-6 (Defiant)
• New Mutants vol 4 #31-33

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Episode Notes

Dungeons and, perchance, some dragons? That's what this BotA is all about!

Ranked This Episode:

• Excalibur Annual #1
• Uncanny X-Men Annual #3
• Savage Avengers #17-19 (King In Black)

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Episode Notes

Charles Francis Xavier is one of the most important leaders in mutant history. He's... not great with people.

Ranked This Episode:

• Uncanny X-Men Annual 2000
• X-Men #2 (Vanisher)
• Marvel Team-Up #118 (Spidey & Prof X)

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Episode Notes

Jeph Loeb probably enjoys a Mountain Dew Dark Berry Bash, the blue raspberry and blackberry variant exclusive to Applebee's Cosmic Wings ghost kitchen. David Draiman probably enjoys Hard Mountain Dew Black Cherry, the most embarrassing way to get drunk. David Bowie would never touch the stuff.

Ranked This Episode:

• Hulk #14-17 (Code Red)
• Avengers: X-Sanction
• Wolverine #310-313 (Sabretooth Reborn)

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Episode Notes

Cyclops is one of the greatest characters in comics, and that's because he screws up so often that it is funny. Like, every time, it's funny how he makes a bad decision.

Ranked This Episode:

• Uncanny X-Men v1 #96 (Night of the Demon)
• X-Factor v1 #13-14 (Master Mold)
• Uncanny X-Men v3 #32 (Cyclops & Havok)

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Episode Notes

There's a lot of things that we talk about in this episode, including the New York Knicks and Grunt Squad shirts and more importantly Ben Grimm.

Ranked This Episode:

• Clobberin' Time #2
• X-Man #59
• Siege vol 2

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Episode Notes

Much like the band Arcade Fire, the X-Men villain Arcade knows that more is more. Also we talk about Dawn, a thing that will only entertain my friend Robert.

Ranked This Episode:

• Excalibur #4-5
• Claws
• Northstar

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Our theme music is Junk Factory from the X-Men Arcade Game by Seiichi Fukami, Yuji Takenouchi, Junya Nakano, and Ayako Hashimoto.

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