Hey, Dan! Forget Murphy Brown and Check Out a <i> Bad</i> Role Model

Lord, hear my prayer: Please keep “Psychoman” away from Dan Quayle.

If the vice president is unhinged because of “Murphy Brown,” he risks thrombosis if he ever hears of the latest comic book creation of Todd Loren and his Hillcrest-based Revolutionary Comics.

Psychoman is a San Diego teen-ager (Kevin Hardin, a runaway from Michigan), who is suddenly possessed of superhuman strength and an antisocial streak.

Psychoman can fly (erection fantasies, anyone?). Psychoman busts a guy’s jaw at Mission Beach and trashes an apartment.

Psychoman gets shot by a cop, throws his parents’ television through a wall, and hooks up with a blonde, feel-good priestess (Terry Winsdor) who seems a good bit like San Diego’s onetime Terry Cole Whittaker.

Says Winsdor: “Money? Money is plentiful for those who allow themselves to come from abundance.”

Most of all, Psychoman has a full-strength X-rated vocabulary: “First off, I ain’t goin’ to work today! Forget that (stuff). I’m gonna use this (stuff) to score some chicks.”

For the untutored, Revolutionary Comics is the thinking man’s funny book purveyor: Doing muckraking books on rock ‘n’ roll groups, a series on jock idols, and a three-part “Elvis Shrugged.”

With Psychoman, Loren wants to create a new super hero: a relevant, streetwise super hero; a super hero with attitude.

In a preamble in the just-published first chapter of “Psychoman,” Loren explains that he’s fed up with the conventional super heroes and their costumes, secret identities and arch villains. Crutches, he snorts.

“I just got tired of watching them save the universe 20 times a month without addressing any real problems, which a super hero should address, starting with his own.”

Look for “Psychoman” to battle/wallow/grapple with sex, drugs, parents, hypocrisy and money. In chapter two, coming next month, Psychoman gets drunk and destroys a religious symbol on television, all with homosexual overtones.

There’s no role yet for an uptight vice president, but anything’s possible.

Spas and the Economy

Media moments.

* Press releases I released immediately:

“VISTA--In what is perhaps another sign that the U.S. economy has entered a strong recovery mode, the nation’s largest manufacturer of portable spas reports it posted record first-quarter sales . . . “

* In town: A reporter for Le Monde, the French daily, doing a story on why San Diego stayed cool during the L.A. riots.

* Before there was Murphy Brown, there was Allison Ross, also a TV anchorwoman and mother sans husband (a daughter, Brittlyn, now 2).

So what does Ross, former news anchor at Channel 8 and now co-anchor of the “Ross-Hedgecock Report” on Channel 39, think of Dan Quayle’s remarks?

“I think the vice president should have said Murphy Brown is a courageous woman for reflecting what a lot of women are facing today: that is, the incredible difficulty of going alone.

“The issue shouldn’t be Murphy Brown, it should be about the men who refuse to take responsibility for child rearing and run away instead, which is what happened in my case.”

A Candidate Deceived

Take it and run.

* Has Susan Golding beaten the Dick Silberman rap?

At a mayoral forum this week in La Jolla, the audience booed when fellow candidate Loch David Crane sharply questioned Golding over her insistence that she knew nothing about Silberman’s criminality.

Golding provided a feminist response that any woman who has been deceived by a man can understand how she was deceived by Silberman.

The audience cheered.

* Three Republican hopefuls in the 49th Congressional District live in the 51st District: Skip Cox, Dave Pierce and Alan Uke. There is no residency requirement.

* Yes, there is a company in San Diego called Noah’s Arc Welding.

* San Diego bumper sticker: In big red letters, “Jesus Saves.” In smaller black letters below, “Gretzky Gets the Rebound and Scores.”