Uncanny X-Men #46: The FBI is Stupid

We begin with the team again trying to pay respects to Xavier. This time they are visited by Agent Duncan of the FBI, who Cyclops was familiar with, though the rest of the team didn't know. He wants to talk, and they had back to the school to do so.

Waiting there though is Foggy Nelson, acting as the lawyer who will read out the last will and testament of Xavier. Pretty much everything, his wealth, the school, and all, was left in a trust to be managed by Cyclops. Foggy leaves, and before Duncan can speak, an explosion goes off downstairs.

Juggernaut has returned from the weird Cytorrak dimension, apparently Xavier was still trying to save him, but the machine did it automatically. There is a fight, the X-Men are barely holding it together but then Juggernaut disappears back to the other dimension cause apparently Xavier made the machine to do that.

Then Agent Duncan drops the news: The government wants the X-Men to split up. Says they are in too much danger all in one place, and also could respond faster to dangerous mutants if they covered more ground.

X-tra Notes: Ok, so here we need to go into a little detail. Halfway through the last set of stories, the writer for the series was switched from Roy Thomas to Gary Friedrich. I've heard that Friedrich has written some great comics, so this is not a knock on him as a comic writer. But at this time in his career at Marvel, he was mostly being used to hand off comics that were floundering in sales. He was intentionally trying to shake things up, and I understand that. But even though I understand that decision, I really despise the whole splitting the team concept, and don't think it worked well.