History ComicStrip / TheWackyAdventuresOfPedro

* EccentricMillionaire: [[ColorfulThemeNaming Emeralda]] Von Snootz, the richest woman in Burropolis, becomes one of the first people to purchase some of Pedro's green, plant-flavored ice cream, after she decides to throw a "[[ColorMotif green party]]". [[spoiler:When Pedro gets whisked to Owrplannit on the way to the party, Emeralda dons an alien disguise, and wins the Miss Galactic Nebula pageant, in order to reclaim "Burro Boy" and the ice cream.]][[note]][[https://books.google.com/books?id=paxLqVEjYmwC&lpg=PA1&pg=PA47#v=onepage&q&f=true August 2006]]-July 2008[[/note]] Pedro himself also becomes this after his green ice cream becomes an intergalactic success.

* ProgressivelyPrettier: Emeralda's nose shrinks after she becomes a more active participant in Pedro's adventures.

* SpaceWestern: The comic briefly becomes one when some dinosaur-like aliens assign Pedro with guiding their Curlyhorn Cattle.[[note]][[https://scoutlife.org/pedro-adventures/#jp-carousel-23497 June 2011]]-August 2011[[/note]]

* SpaceWestern: The comic briefly becomes one when some dinosaur-like aliens assign Pedro with guiding their Curlyhorn Cattle.[[note]][[https://scoutlife.org/pedro-adventures/#jp-carousel-23497 June 2011]]-August 2011[[/note]]

** Pedro and Emeralda face [[https://books.google.com/books?id=ilJgUYY88R0C&lpg=PA1&pg=PA58#v=onepage&q&f=true another band of pirates]] after escaping Owrplannit. Their leader, Pace Pyratt, gives an ForcedTransformation to those he steals from, then banishes them to the desert asteroid Parch.

* SpaceCowboy: Pedro becomes one when some dinosaur-like aliens assign him with guiding their Curlyhorn Cattle.[[note]][[https://scoutlife.org/pedro-adventures/#jp-carousel-23497 June 2011]]-August 2011[[/note]]

* MeaningfulName: Regarding the "Ladino de Philmonte" section of Pedro's full name: "Ladino" was a name given to his ancestor, Don Juan, for his fluency in various kinds of human language, translated in "The Totally True Story of Pedro's Ancestors" as both "One who speaks more than one language", and, "sly, shrewd, a big talker." "Philmonte" refers to Philmont Scout Ranch, where Pedro resided before getting shipped to ''Boys' Life''.

* ForWantOfANail:
** Pedro wouldn't have saved Earth from the asteroid if some OutOfContextEavesdropping didn't inspire him to visit the moon for otherworldly ice cream ingredients, or if he didn't experience a fuel-burning close call with some asteroids, or if a group of aliens didn't tow him to their home turf, or if he didn't meet an alien who could both speak English, and point out the giant rock heading towards the Earth.
** Pedro wouldn't have saved 31st century Earth from the Blue Aliens living on the Ruby Moon of Doom if he didn't overshoot his attempt to travel from the Jurassic period to the 21st century, or happen to take a nighttime walk as the aliens captured more slaves.

* MeaningfulName: Regarding the "Ladino de Philmonte" section of Pedro's full name: "Ladino" was a name given to Don Juan for his fluency in various kinds of human language, translated as both "One who speaks more than one language", and, "sly, shrewd, a big talker." "Philmonte" refers to Philmont Scout Ranch, where today's Pedro resided before getting shipped to ''Boys' Life''.

* OverlyLongName: Pedro's full name seems like a mouthful: Don Juan Pedro Ladino de Philmonte. The GenerationalSaga "[[https://scoutlife.org/features/160885/the-totally-true-story-of-pedros-ancestors/ The Totally True Story of Pedro's Ancestors]]" (first published in 1958 as "[[https://books.google.com/books?id=atAH9WVPYz4C&pg=PA23#v=onepage&q&f=true Pedro -- My Story]]") explains each part.[[note]]"Don" was both a title applied to Pedro's Spaniard ancestors, and an abbreviation for "donkey". Don Juan is the abbreviated name of Pedro's first "foreburro" to reside in the United States, and Don Pedro the first to live in North America at all. "Ladino" was a name given to Don Juan for his fluency in various kinds of human language, translated as both "One who speaks more than one language", and, "sly, shrewd, a big talker." "Philmonte" refers to Philmont Scout Ranch, where today's Pedro resided before getting shipped to ''Boys' Life''. [[/note]]

* DudeWheresMyRespect: Pedro [[https://books.google.com/books?id=Ov8DAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA3&pg=PA49#v=onepage&q&f=true falls into a funk]] after diverting the aforementioned asteroid, but returning to Earth with no proof other than his recollections and memories. [[spoiler:His friends cheer him up with a special medal.]]

* LookBehindYou: Pedro sends [[https://books.google.com/books?id=gPgDAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA1&pg=PA54#v=onepage&q&f=true the Cleanie]] back into his bottle by pointing at it, and exclaiming that it has some dust. After the Cleanie rushes back in, Pedro swiftly corks the bottle up.

* HeliCritter: An overdose of PowerupFood causes Pedro's ears to stretch and rotate like helicopter blades.[[note]][[https://scoutlife.org/pedro-adventures/#jp-carousel-23500 September 2011]]-May 2011[[/note]]

* HelicopterEars: Pedro develops these due to eating too much PowerUpFood at once.[[note]][[https://scoutlife.org/pedro-adventures/#jp-carousel-23500 September 2011]]-May 2011[[/note]]

* SpaceCowboy: Some dinosaur-like aliens assign Pedro with guiding their Curlyhorn Cattle.[[note]][[https://scoutlife.org/pedro-adventures/#jp-carousel-23497 June 2011]]-August 2011[[/note]]

* AlienAbduction: Eaton's first ''Pedro'' serial to run longer than a year[[note]]specifically, from May 1995-June 1996[[/note]] had Pedro get abducted by [[https://books.google.com/books?id=Qv8DAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA4&rview=1&pg=PA51#v=onepage&q&f=true aliens from the planet Zorg]], who took his IAmGreatSong about being "The Great Deep Thinker" to mean he could solve an issue with their teleporter. Zorg [[http://scoutlife.org/pedro-adventures/attachment/pedro0510/ turned to him again]] several years later, to try and stop their land from getting sold off and turned into sports fields. In between, Pedro found himself captured by several other alien tribes.

** In one storyline, Ordep had been posing as Pedro's butler, serving him [[TrademarkFavoriteFood alfalfa milkshakes]] to keep him off guard while he ruined Pedro's life. When Pedro finally escapes at the end, he says he never wants to see another one for the rest of his life, and runs screaming away when one of his friends comes by with a milkshake glass full of green liquid. [[spoiler:It was actually a clover frappe.]]

** When Pedro [[https://books.google.com/books?id=hfwDAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA1&pg=PA47#v=onepage&q&f=true returns from 3001 to 2001]], he sees a floating red sphere, then screams that the Ruby Moon of Doom has found him again. [[spoiler:After he faints from the shock, the strip reveals the sphere as merely a child's balloon.]]

* TraumaButtonEnding: In one storyline, Ordep had been posing as Pedro's butler, serving him [[TrademarkFavoriteFood alfalfa milkshakes]] to keep him off guard while he ruined Pedro's life. When Pedro finally escapes at the end, he says he never wants to see another one for the rest of his life, and runs screaming away when one of his friends comes by with a milkshake glass full of green liquid.[[note]]It was actually a clover frappe.[[/note]]

* MegaMicrobes: One storyline had Pedro and most of the town's inhabitants shrunk to microscopic size and fall into a creek. For the next several issues, "Pedramoeba" had adventures in the microscopic world until the local MadScientist scaled everyone back up (and also enlarged a few actual microbes, which was his original intention).

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[[caption-width-right:250:Pedro as drawn by Tom Eaton.]]

''The Wacky Adventures of Pedro'' is a comic published in ''Boys' Life'' magazine, documenting the exploits of their long-running {{mascot}}, Pedro the "Mailburro" (previously the star of short stories and one-panel strips shown in the ''Boys' Life'' letters column, ''Hitchin' Rack''). Tom Eaton wrote and drew ''Wacky Adventures'' from 1990-2014. His run started out as page-long SliceOfLife gag strips, but gradually sent Pedro on [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin wacky adventures]] spanning everywhere from his hometown of Burropolis, to the far reaches of time and space. Stephen Gilpin took over the comic from January 2016-February 2022. His run {{retool}}ed the series into a WorkCom set mainly at the ''Boys' Life'' publishing office.

The ''Boys' Life'' website has [[http://boyslife.org/pedro-adventures/ an archive]] of ''Pedro'' comics from TheNewTens onward, while even older comics can be found in [[https://books.google.com/books/serial/ISSN:00068608?rview=1 Google Books' collection]] of back issues.

* BrilliantButLazy: Despite his many talents, Pedro still seems like a simpleton who takes his ''Boys' Life'' duties progressively less seriously.

* OverlyLongName: Pedro's full name seems like a mouthful: Don Juan Pedro Ladino de Philmonte. The GenerationalSaga "[[https://boyslife.org/features/160885/the-totally-true-story-of-pedros-ancestors/ The Totally True Story of Pedro's Ancestors]]" (first published in 1958 as "[[https://books.google.com/books?id=atAH9WVPYz4C&pg=PA23#v=onepage&q&f=true Pedro -- My Story]]") explains each part.[[note]]"Don" was both a title applied to Pedro's Spaniard ancestors, and an abbreviation for "donkey". Don Juan is the abbreviated name of Pedro's first "foreburro" to reside in the United States, and Don Pedro the first to live in North America at all. "Ladino" was a name given to Don Juan for his fluency in various kinds of human language, translated as both "One who speaks more than one language", and, "sly, shrewd, a big talker." "Philmonte" refers to Philmont Scout Ranch, where today's Pedro resided before getting shipped to ''Boys' Life''. [[/note]]

* AlienAbduction: Eaton's first ''Pedro'' serial to run longer than a year[[note]]specifically, from May 1995-June 1996[[/note]] had Pedro get abducted by [[https://books.google.com/books?id=Qv8DAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA4&rview=1&pg=PA51#v=onepage&q&f=true aliens from the planet Zorg]], who took his IAmGreatSong about being "The Great Deep Thinker" to mean he could solve an issue with their teleporter. Zorg [[http://boyslife.org/pedro-adventures/attachment/pedro0510/ turned to him again]] several years later, to try and stop their land from getting sold off and turned into sports fields. In between, Pedro's found himself captured by several other alien tribes.

* {{Retcon}}: [[http://boyslife.org/pedro-adventures/attachment/pedro-jan16/ Gilpin's first comic]] provides an alternate ending to the ''Pedro'' storyline ''Boys' Life'' re-ran after Eaton stopped writing new Wacky Adventures.

* UniquePilotTitleSequence: The [[https://books.google.com/books?id=oPgDAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=true first comic]] boasted the title, ''The Wacky World of Pedro the Boys' Life Mailburro'', with Pedro's name even written in a different style than in Eaton's following strips.