Battle Of The Atom: Name That External!
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:
Battle of The Atom
Ranking every X-Men story from A to Z. Hosted by Zack Jenkins and Adam Reck.
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Battle Of The Atom: The Gold Standard
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:
Battle Of The Atom: The Robcipe
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:
Battle Of The Atom: Heka-Nut & The Sword Of Bone
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…
Battle Of The Atom: Egg Challenge with Dr. Anna Peppard
We love Meggan, here’s an episode. Also Anna is here and isn’t that great! Ranked this Episode:
Battle Of The Atom: D’Onofrio Style + Megacon 2025
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: Also in the episode: Greg Land, Marc Guggenheim, Ben Percy, Craig Kyle, David Pepose, Chris Condon, Ryan Stegman, Zeb Wells and…
Battle Of The Atom: The 1,000th Story
Rivers Cuomo once said, “I wanna go back, back to the shack, back to the Strat with the lightning strap,” and we echo that message by going back to our roots for a 1,000th story celebration about the stories the occurred at both the birth of the podcast and the birth of us. Rivers Cuomo…
Battle Of The Atom: Sweeps Week with Connor Goldsmith
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…
Battle Of The Atom: Sacre Blu Superman
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…
Battle Of The Atom: Carey On
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:
Battle Of The Atom: Orphan & Nannymaker
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:
Battle Of The Atom: We Have Magneto At Home
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…
Battle Of The Atom: Home Aloneā¦ With Kevin?
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:
Battle Of The Atom: Soundwave Pterodactyl
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: