- 58 minutes 3 secondsWhat Time Is It?
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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15 June 2026, 8:20 am - 1 hour 11 minutesPure Beautiful Stupid
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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1 June 2026, 8:20 am - 56 minutes 5 secondsGhost World Daria
Episode Notes
I have a hard time believing that Daniel Clowes would want his "comix" confused with Marvel's "What If?" series featuring the X-Men. And yet, that's what we are presupposing in this week's Battle Of The Atom.
Are we the smartest podcast out there? No. But we are the best place to learn about the video game series Primal Roar. A video game I think Daniel Clowes would like.
Ranked This Episode:
- Hero Initiative: Mike Wieringo #1
- What If v2 #-1 (Bishop)
- What If v2 #92 (Josh & a Sentinel)
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25 May 2026, 8:20 am - 1 hour 6 minutesAll Dogs
Episode Notes
ATTENTION ALL MEMEMBERS OF THE BOTA FEDERATION. ZACK HAS BECOME ALL DOG. REPEAT. ZACK HAS BECOME ALL DOGS. THIS WILL IMPACT YOUR PRECEPTIONS OF REALITY FROM THIS POINT FORWARD.
Ranked This Episode:
- X-Men: Millennial Visions #1-2
- GeneXt
- Marvels Comics: X-Men #1
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11 May 2026, 12:04 pm - 1 hour 4 minutesWill Not Go Meekly
Episode Notes
Look, I was going to write something else here but I just found a copy of the unmade Magneto movie so I'm going to be over here reading that. Thematically appropriate.
Ranked This Episode:
- Uncanny X-Force #9
- Magneto #13-17
- Uncanny X-Men #161
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4 May 2026, 8:20 am - 51 minutes 43 secondsNude Tane
Episode Notes
How funny is it that Tim Heidecker is the new Alex Jones? Anyway here's an episode about Wolverine with a lot of good art and also a nude Tane.
Ranked This Episode:
- Wolverine: Bloodlust
- Wolverine: Inner Fury
- Wolverine: Killing
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27 April 2026, 8:20 am - 1 hour 3 minutesThe Wedding Special
Episode Notes
Adam & Dr. Anna Peppard got married. Well they got married a year ago but anyway we're celebrating it how. Say happy wedding to them.
Ranked This Episode:
- Black Panther #14-18 (Wedding Of The Century)
- Excalibur #124-125
- X-Men: The Wedding Special vol 2 #1
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20 April 2026, 4:00 am - 54 minutes 49 secondsResurrected
Episode Notes
In this episode, Zack proves the one guy from 7 years ago who made a comment about how this podcast is too religious correct.
Ranked This Episode:
- X-Men: Hope #1
- New Mutants v2 #5-6
- Astonishing X-Men v4 #7-12 (A Man Called X) https://www.patreon.com/BattleOfTheAtom
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6 April 2026, 8:20 am - 1 hour 1 minuteHey Arnold
Episode Notes
Gail Simone is the current writer of Uncanny X-Men. But what we posit is that she wrote X-Men related things before this. Would you believe that's what we are covering on the podcast this week?
Ranked This Episode:
- Deadpool #65-69 (Healing Factor)
- Domino: Hotshots
- Marvelous Adventures of Gus Beezer: X-Men
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30 March 2026, 10:18 am - 1 hour 9 minutesJessica Rabbit
Episode Notes
Sometimes superheroes get new clothes for no reason other than the fact that it sells variant convers and maybe could be a microtransaction in a video game. This is call the Spider-Man sales plan.
Ranked This Episode:
- Astonishing X-Men: Xenogenesis
- X-Men vol 2 #35 (Sunset Grace)
- X-Men #37-39 (Factor Three)
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23 March 2026, 12:09 pm - 58 minutes 18 secondsThe World's Smallest Man
Episode Notes
At the start of the 1970s crumbling relationships with Iran led to shocks in the global energy market, shooting up prices at the pump while the X-Men meandered aimlessly with Marvel not having a clue what to do with them. This is not commentary on current events.
Ranked This Episode:
- Marvel Team-Up #4
- Avengers #110-111
- Captain America Annual #4
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