Mutant, Texas: Tales of Sheriff Ida Red

Mutant, Texas: Tales of Sheriff Ida Red
Mutant, Texas: Tales of Sheriff Ida Red trade paperback. Cover art by J. Bone
Publication information
Publisher	Oni Press
Schedule	Monthly
Format	Miniseries
Genre	Humor Adventure
Publication date	2002
No. of issues	4 + short stories and strips
Main character(s)	Ida Red Rollalong Diller Clint Saguaro Mayor Lansdale Tia Oso Mezcal
Creative team
Created by	Paul Dini
Written by	Paul Dini
Artist(s)	J. Bone
Collected editions
Mutant, Texas: Tales of Sheriff Ida Red	ISBN 1-929998-53-8

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.