They got so many letters about Vic's silly hair that they chopped it back down in #12! I was gonna scan some letters, but I figure I'll get to that in a later installment. It lasted till about #20, when it started getting long again and never looked back till Denny finished with him in '97. His appearance later that year in Steel #38 (which was also drawn by Denys Cowan, but with that inking job you would never recognize it!) had him with shorter hair for the first time in about nine years. Around the time of the election, Myra's was in a pretty constant flux too.
Gomez's desire to change does encourage compassion, but it'd be so much easier if he'd just, like, hang out in another room while they're working instead of piling on the reasons they would not want to be around him.