Painting the Town

• Writer - Peter David
• Penciler - Mark Pacella
• Inker - Al Milgrom
• Colorist - Glynis Oliver
• Lettering - Richard Starkings
• Editor - Kelly Corvese
• Editor - Bob Harras
• Editor in Chief - Tom Defalco

Summary

  Ransome and Moreau arrive to help the X-Patriots deal with the US government, and Lukas attacks Moreau because his father was the Genegineer. Alex knocks him down.

  Rahne, herself a mutate (see New Mutants 96), talks to the others. Alex offers to escort the X-Patriots around New York, and forces Val to let him without legal papers.

  Chalker, to avenge his brother Vic's death (iss. 77) has made himself Number One Fan. With razor-sharp fan blades for hands, he is unable to open the door, and when he angrily slaps his forehead, it isn't pretty.

  X-Factor split up, taking various Genoshans to the playground, a bar, the Statue of Liberty, a disco, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. At the museum, Taylor starts a cold fire sculpture, is identified as a mutant, and beaten by some locals wielding a baseball bat. Rahne weeps over him while Jamie gets an ambulance.