Sheriff Ida Red is a comic book and cartoon character created by writer/cartoonist Paul Dini.
According to her origin story, young Ida was found as an orphaned baby in the desert outside of remote Mutant, Texas. Raised by the strange inhabitants of the town (a mixture of southwestern plant and animal mutants) teen-aged Ida was convinced she was an outcast until she developed amazing super powers of her own. Later appointed Sheriff, Ida now serves as guardian and peacekeeper of the unique little town.
Famous quotes containing the words sheriff, ida and/or red:
“The man’s an M.D., like you. He’s entitled to his opinion. Or do you want me to charge him with confusing a country doctor?”
—Robert M. Fresco. Jack Arnold. Sheriff Jack Andrews (Nestor Paiva)
“Can you conceive what it is to native-born American women citizens, accustomed to the advantages of our schools, our churches and the mingling of our social life, to ask over and over again for so simple a thing as that “we, the people,” should mean women as well as men; that our Constitution should mean exactly what it says?”
—Mary F. Eastman, U.S. suffragist. As quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 4 ch. 5, by Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper (1902)
““The god has not yet answered to our pity
For the black vision and tangle in her brains,
Nor is there knowing soever in the city
Of the red histories that throbbed in her blue veins.””
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)