Best hair on a local personality (retired)

You can hear Mike Luoma on the Point, where he’s the music director and a midday DJ. You can buy his self-published science-fiction trilogy, subscribe to his podcasts and pick up his latest graphic novel from California’s Earthbound Comics. (Called Good Samaritan: Unto Dust, it’s about a Roman Catholic priest wielding superpowers he believes are divine.)

And yet, this year Seven Days readers chose to recognize Luoma for … his hair. Admittedly, it’s an impressive mane. When he was younger, Luoma says, “I had to keep my hair short, and because of its curliness, it never behaved … it kinda looked like a white man’s Afro.” Later, when his radio career allowed him to let his hair grow, “I thought, Maybe this is the way it’s supposed to be,” he says.

SEVEN DAYS: If your hair were a comic-book character, who would it be?

MIKE LUOMA: It has different personalities on different days, depending on the weather and other conditions. I thought of Spawn, because it just sort of does its own thing, and it’s crazy the way his cloak is crazy. And then I thought of Spiderman, ’cause the same artist [Todd McFarlane] drew Spiderman for a while, and … his webs were doing the same thing [as the crazy cloak]. The other comic-book guy I’ve imitated in poses is [famously shaggy Watchmen creator] Alan Moore.

—Margot Harrison