Uncanny X-Men #22-23: We Have Henchmen At Home

Once again, Xavier tries to let the X-Men take a break for a couple of weeks, and once again, something goes wrong. Honestly just feel bad for them at this point. In this two parter, the gang goes against Count Nefaria and a collection of supervillain henchman. Nefaria has a plan: Surround Washington, DC with an impenetrable dome then threaten to suck all the oxygen out of the air if he doesn't get $100 million! And he's going to have the X-Men do it. In the first comic he lures them individually to central park using illusions of themselves and has his henchmen capture them. Then he threatens to kill the whole city if they don't make the exchange and claim credit. Xavier has them follow along, they get the money, fight the military, the henchmen betray Nefaria, but the X-Men beat them all. Jean delivers the money to Nefaria, but then a mysterious man walks in and destroys the machine making the bubble. Nefaria escapes, but without the money cause the mysterious man replaced it with an illusion. Also, he called the coast guard to catch him. The mysterious man turns out to be Xavier using some special mechanical braces he had been working on to allow him to walk (LOOK OUT JEAN, HE'S OUT OF THE WHEELCHAIR!). But maybe Jean's safe cause she also states at the end that she got a letter and now she has to leave the X-Men forever...

X-tra Notes: Man I have never seen such an obscure collection of d-grade supervillain henchmen. I had literally only heard of one of them and that was cause he was in the She-Hulk show put in the therapy group of "obscure villains no on has heard of". Seriously: Unicorn, Eel, Plantman, Porcupine, and Scarecrow. I didn't even know Marvel HAD a Scarecrow. Nefaria really needs to stop shopping in the bargain bin.