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Author: Zachary Jenkins & Adam Reck

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

Baked In

2026-01-1201:13:11

Episode Notes Some have called us the Cheech & Chong of X-Men podcasts. I've never seen those movies but I can say that if one of them is constantly suffering from bits that only the other person thinks is funny, then the descriptions fits. This is the weed number episode. Danked This Episode: Kissnation #1 Uncanny X-Men #417-420 (Dominate Species) X-Force #121-122 (Laccuna) 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!
Episode Notes Alex Paknadel comes on the show to chat about his upcoming Cyclops series, the Punch Dimension, and what it's like writing X-Men in this last year. 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!
Ep.418 - Mall Santa

Ep.418 - Mall Santa

2025-12-2254:49

Episode Notes There is an epidemic striking our country, that is an epidemic of running out of holiday themed stories to cover at Christmas time. Therefore I want no complaints at what Santa brought you. Ranked This Episode; Marvel Holiday Special 1996 Marvel Holiday Magazine #1 Marvel Holiday Tales To Astonish #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!
Ep.417 - The 2002 All-Stars

Ep.417 - The 2002 All-Stars

2025-12-1501:11:51

Episode Notes Een la yair of ur laird déux thousand deux Marvel writairs absulute-lee loved makeng nu charactairs to throw at people and 'ope zey stik. Vairy fu of zém did. But zere was un and of curse 'e's francais, why do you think 'e 'as zis ootrajéous accént? Ranked zis episode: X-Treme X-Men #10-16 (Invasion) Uncanny X-Men #399 (For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge) New X-Men #128-130 (Fantomex) 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!
Ep.416 - Thiwp Thoughts

Ep.416 - Thiwp Thoughts

2025-12-0801:03:59

Episode Notes In 2007, the creative team of J. Michael Straczynski and Joe Quesada had children's pull-ups character Spider-Man sell his marriage to the Satan Mephisto in exchange for the life of his dear Aunt May, an octogenarian who lived a full life that was marred near its end by nearly weekly health issues and who was assumed dead at the start of Straczynski's run. Much like me with my own parent's divorce, losers who like comics have NEVER gotten over it. Ranked This Episode: Spider-Man vol 1 #15 (Mutant Factor!) Marvel Adventures Spider-Man #59 Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows Vol 2 #6-7 (School Daze!) 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!
Episode Notes We love Nightcrawer, we love all types of blue people, we also love Dr. Anna Peppard who is not blue. Ranked This Episode: Excalibur #16-17 (Warlord Kurt) Exiles v1 #41-42 (A Nocturne's Tale)  X-Men First Class: The High Hand 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!
Episode Notes You'll never go in the water again, but maybe you'll go back in the podcast again and talk about Loa (Alani Ryan). Ranked This Episode: Classic X-Men #13 Namor: The First Mutant #5 Deadpool vol 7 #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!
Ep.413 - Skinsuit

Ep.413 - Skinsuit

2025-11-1701:09:47

Episode Notes Trent Renzor once said "I want to feel you from the inside" and the gothy romantic she is, Moira took that seriously in her tenth life. Ranked This Episode: What If? #75 (What if Blink hadn't died?) Generation X #71-75 (Four Days) X Deaths of Wolverine 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!
Episode Notes Zack gets mad at people who take a man named Victor Von Doom too seriously. Adam does his absolute best to save the podcast from neurogas. Ranked This Episode: Uncanny X-Men #145-147 Uncanny X-Men #197 Super-Villain Team-Up #14, Champions #16 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!
Episode Notes It's a lovely morning in the X-Mansion, and you are a horrible mutant. Ranked This Episode: Secret Wars II #5 X-Factor #12 New Mutants vol 4 #3-4,6 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!
Ep.410 - Corpse Stuff

Ep.410 - Corpse Stuff

2025-10-2757:36

Episode Notes Happy Halloween everybody. We have stories about corpses. Also economics? Ranked This Episode: New Mutants #64 (The Resurrection on Cypher) Marvel Comics Presents #90-97 (Ghost Rider & Cable: Servants of the Dead) Gambit vol 4 #7-9 (Voodoo Economics) 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!
Episode Notes Look folks we are 30 or 40 years old, sometimes it takes 3 weeks to record an episode about 5 total issues of comics. This is what life is for us who choose this life. Ranked This Episode: Team X / Team 7 Wolverine/Deathblow #1-2 Shi/Wolverine 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!
Ep.408 - Something To Say

Ep.408 - Something To Say

2025-09-2901:04:30

Episode Notes Sometimes, X-Men comics have something to say. No one said they should say it, but darn it, the X-Men are going to say something. Ranked This Episode: New Mutants #45 (Larry Bodine) Muties Generation Hope #9 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!
Ep.407 - Turning Japanese

Ep.407 - Turning Japanese

2025-09-2201:06:28

Episode Notes The Editor in Chief of Marvel Comics once did an elaborate deception, pretending to be a Japanese Manga writer named Akira Yoshida, in order to skirt internal rules and write some of the biggest weeb comics in Marvel's history. Everyone involved still gets mad when you bring it up because the consequence was more or less the dude taking a year off to write a comic about how much sex his always has. But look, what are you going to do but laugh? It's not like we live in a country trying to stifle free speech. Ranked This Episode: Wolverine: Soultaker X-Men: Kitty Pryde: Shadow And Flame Astonishing Tales: Wolverine/Punisher 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!
Episode Notes We’re talking about X-stories from the mid-80s and early 90s that incorporate the incomprehensible idea that anything bad could ever happen to the Twin Towers. Ranked This Episode: X-Force #3-4, Spider-Man #16 (Sabotage) Uncanny X-Men #189 (Two Girls Out To Have Fun) Marvel Graphic Novel #17 (Revenge of the Living Monolith) 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!
Ep.405 - Unbreakable

Ep.405 - Unbreakable

2025-09-0858:30

Episode Notes I wonder what M. Night Shyamalan thought about the X-Men character Marrow. I have to assume he knows about her. Perhaps he has thoughts. Ranked This Episode: X-Force vol 4 #1-6 (Dirty/Tricks) Spider-Man/Marrow #1 X-Men Unlimited Infinity Comic 75-79 (Unbreakable) 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!
Ep.404 - Zxazx Attack

Ep.404 - Zxazx Attack

2025-09-0101:04:18

Episode Notes Sometimes, we wonder if we should change the podcast to be something more palatable to general audiences. But listen, if the X-Men have taught us anything, it's to be weird little freaks, so we are going to continue to do an X-Men podcast that is increasingly about things you wouldn't normally get in an X-Men podcast. Ranked This Episode: Spellbound #4 Mutant Misadventures of Cloak and Dagger #4 Ka-Zar the Savage #10-12 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!
Episode Notes Do you think I mind that Walter Disney doesn't approve of some of these comics? That his estate isn't entitled to the sweat of the worker's brow? None of these comics are officially sanctioned, and who cares? Ranked This Episode: John Allison's Kitty & Wolverine comic Valentine's Syrin comic Max Wittert Jean & Scott 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!
Ep.402 - Daddy's Home.

Ep.402 - Daddy's Home.

2025-08-1159:07

Episode Notes In which we understand how much Cable's favorite Everclear song is "Father of Mine" Ranked This Episode: X-Men v5 #1-2 Uncanny X-Men #310 Cable & X-Force #6-9 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!
Episode Notes Clowns are so cool, I wish they were real... Ranked This Episode: Obnoxio The Clown Vs The X-Men Marvel Two-In-One #76 Wolverine & The X-Men #21-23 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!
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