Date: Oct-92
Story: Painting the Town (30 pages)
Feature Characters: Havok, Polaris, Strong Guy, Multiple Man, Wolfsbane, Quicksilver
Regular Characters: Val Cooper
Guest Stars: Jenny Ransome, Philip Moreau
Villains: Cameron Hodge as an illusion; Prof. Rick Chalker
Other Characters: Bart Coswell, X-Patriots including Prodigal, Lukas, Pirouette, Taylor
Credits:
Writer: Peter David
Pencils: Mark Pacella
Inks: Al Milgrom
Letters: Richard Starkings
Colors: Glynis Oliver
Editor: Kelly Corvese
Group Editor: Bob Harras
Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco
Synopsis: 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.