Chris Hansen & Charles Xavier
Overview
The X-Men are training in the Danger Room, Beast calls Iceman, a feather-brained fathead! Anyway, the X-Men's powers are put to the test, and they all do pretty well. We get more characterization. Cyclops is worried about his powers, Beast uses big words, Iceman is a jokester, and Warren... flaps his wings, just like the Nelly song. Oh and Jean is girly, but does well in her TP exam. Professor X then discovers a new mutant, so the X-Men's new task is to find him. We get a little bit more boys arguing over and for Jean, including Xavier this time! Yes, this is the famous issue he reveals to us the reader he has the hots for Jean Grey.
X-Men find Blob (fiirssttt appearance for y'all playin at home and collectors), and he is basically doing some cool tricks with his powers. Groups of men can't budge him, bullets bounce of him, he eats five KFC Double Downs and doesn't die. Long story short, he is invited to the X-Mansion (Blob likes the look of Jean too, wow what a surprise) and Xavier tests him with some other things, but he ends up fighting the X-Men, until he escapes... and manages to fit down a man hole? Wow lol
Xavier is quick to admit his first mistake, in regards to asking them to bring Blob to the X-Mansion. (I am pretty sure his lustful feelings for Jean should be his first) but oh well, at least he still admits a mistake, unlike some X-Men leader-king gods. Blob gets some of his clown friends (literal clown friends, from a circus, and a bunch of other circus people) to attack the X-Men. Their are a bunch of actually pretty cool, funny action sequences with the X-Men vs circus people. In the end Xavier wins the day for the X-Men, and does some psychic surgery onto the Blob and the Circus people, mind wiping them. He does this now by the way, because he made a Forge like gun that amplified his powers and they just started working sorta. (???)
Random Musings
This is *that* issue, where Xavier mentions he loves Jean, (lol) and regrets being in a wheelchair, because if he wasn't, he'd be all over that like Fraction on Princess Bride Quotes!, Plus of course Blobs first appearance. Cyclops reaction speed is also up 300% now, so he must have sucked beforehand. I think this is the first time the X-Mansion is partially destroyed. This issue also had a Elephant, Giraffe and a Gorilla. (that wasn't Beast)Moment of WTF/Ewww/Gross/Lulz
You know how fans are obsessed about continuity and always think that everything should be remembered? Yeah... funny how it only tends to be moments and character characteristics they want... and not this sort of thing. Of course one clever writer brought this up during Onslaught story line but he was clearly trolling. 
Moment of WTF/Again
I love the implication here that Iceman randomly goes around freezing peoples lower legs to the pavement like its an every day occurrence hence his utmost shock and horror when Blob breaks his ice box. Heh heh get it? Blob breaking Iceman's ice box... ah your no fun. 
Beyond the sort of hilarity brought about by being so what? So dated. This was my favorite issue so far out of reading Uncanny X-Men from start. Make of that what you will. Still lots of WTF moments (Xavier really? Jean? WTF) but yeah, I think worth tracking down to read. Sort of demonstrates that a bit of minor updating with characters and stories is not always a bad thing. Makes me miss Blob a bit as well.
