Mutant, Texas: Tales of Sheriff Ida Red

Mutant, Texas: Tales of Sheriff Ida Red
Publication information
Publisher	Oni Press
Schedule	Monthly.
Format	Mini series.
Publication date	2002 - Present
Number of issues	4
Main character(s)	Ida Red
Creative team
Writer(s)	Paul Dini
Artist(s)	J. Bone

Mutant, Texas: Tales of Sheriff Ida Red is a four-issue comic book miniseries created by Paul Dini and illustrated by J. Bone, published by Oni Press in 2002. The stories take place in a mythical West Texas town changed by a release of atomic power and mystic forces.

The lead character is Sheriff Ida Red, a seemingly normal 16-year-old orphan who develops amazing mutant powers. Through her heroism Ida later becomes sheriff of the strange town. Other characters include:

• Ida's armadillo deputy Rollalong Diller,
• Tia Oso (Aunt Bear in Spanish), a bear-woman shaman and Ida's aunt,
• the sultry Mexican cantina owner Mezcal, a humanoid mutated agave plant,
• Clint Saguaro, a cactus-man modeled after Clint Eastwood's Man with No Name character from Sergio Leone's Trilogy,
• the Kiyotes, a family of villainous trailer trash coyotes,
• the diminutive, malapropism-spouting Mayor Lansdale, who is widely thought to be a parody of Ross Perot.

Ida Red first appeared in Oni Double Feature #13, August 1999, the same issue that introduced Dini's Jingle Belle character.