Mutant, Texas: Tales of Sheriff Ida Red
| Mutant, Texas: Tales of Sheriff Ida Red | |
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Cover image. Art by J Bone | |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Oni Press |
| Schedule | Monthly. |
| Format | Mini series. |
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| 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.