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This would fit better under Moral Event Horizon if I had time to rewrite it


* OlderThanTheyThink: ''Boys' Life'' gave Pedro alliterative nicknames as early as TheForties, when his adventures (printed in the ''Hitchin' Rack'' column rather than on full pages) relied mostly on text. Some ''Hitchin' Rack'' stories even had Pedro don human clothes, long before he began wearing a purple sweater all of the time.
* UnintentionallySympathetic: "Derpo" worries about Pedro [[https://books.google.com/books?id=mfsDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA49#v=onepage&q&f=true taking credit for his stunt work]], to the extent of [[spoiler:replacing Pedro at an awards show to steal ''his'' glory, instead]]. While Eaton paints this as unfair on the double's part, his worry -- but not his decision to [[https://books.google.com/books?id=xfwDAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA3&pg=PA45#v=onepage&q&f=true take it out on Pedro rather than the studio]] -- could seem understandable to readers who believe stunt people and coordinators really don't get the appreciation they deserve.

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* OlderThanTheyThink: ''Boys' Life'' gave Pedro alliterative nicknames as early as TheForties, when his adventures (printed in the ''Hitchin' Rack'' column rather than on full pages) relied mostly on text. Some ''Hitchin' Rack'' stories even had Pedro don human clothes, long before he began wearing a purple sweater all of the time.
* UnintentionallySympathetic: "Derpo" worries about Pedro [[https://books.google.com/books?id=mfsDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA49#v=onepage&q&f=true taking credit for his stunt work]], to the extent of [[spoiler:replacing Pedro at an awards show to steal ''his'' glory, instead]]. While Eaton paints this as unfair on the double's part, his worry -- but not his decision to [[https://books.google.com/books?id=xfwDAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA3&pg=PA45#v=onepage&q&f=true take it out on Pedro rather than the studio]] -- could seem understandable to readers who believe stunt people and coordinators really don't get the appreciation they deserve.
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* UnintentionallySympathetic: "Derpo" worries about Pedro [[https://books.google.com/books?id=mfsDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA49#v=onepage&q&f=true taking credit for his stunt work]], to the extent of [[spoiler:replacing Pedro at an awards show to steal ''his'' glory, instead]]. While Eaton paints this as unfair on the double's part, his worry -- but not [[https://books.google.com/books?id=xfwDAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA3&pg=PA45#v=onepage&q&f=true his means of dealing with it]] -- could seem understandable to readers who believe stunt people and coordinators really don't get the appreciation they deserve.

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* UnintentionallySympathetic: "Derpo" worries about Pedro [[https://books.google.com/books?id=mfsDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA49#v=onepage&q&f=true taking credit for his stunt work]], to the extent of [[spoiler:replacing Pedro at an awards show to steal ''his'' glory, instead]]. While Eaton paints this as unfair on the double's part, his worry -- but not his decision to [[https://books.google.com/books?id=xfwDAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA3&pg=PA45#v=onepage&q&f=true his means of dealing with it]] take it out on Pedro rather than the studio]] -- could seem understandable to readers who believe stunt people and coordinators really don't get the appreciation they deserve.
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* UnintentionallySympathetic: [[spoiler:Ordep]] worries about Pedro [[https://books.google.com/books?id=mfsDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA49#v=onepage&q&f=true taking credit for his stunt work]], to the extent of [[spoiler:replacing Pedro at an awards show to steal ''his'' glory, instead]]. While Eaton paints this as unfair on the double's part, his worry -- but not [[https://books.google.com/books?id=xfwDAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA3&pg=PA45#v=onepage&q&f=true his means of dealing with it]] -- could seem understandable to readers who believe stunt people and coordinators really don't get the appreciation they deserve.

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* UnintentionallySympathetic: [[spoiler:Ordep]] "Derpo" worries about Pedro [[https://books.google.com/books?id=mfsDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA49#v=onepage&q&f=true taking credit for his stunt work]], to the extent of [[spoiler:replacing Pedro at an awards show to steal ''his'' glory, instead]]. While Eaton paints this as unfair on the double's part, his worry -- but not [[https://books.google.com/books?id=xfwDAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA3&pg=PA45#v=onepage&q&f=true his means of dealing with it]] -- could seem understandable to readers who believe stunt people and coordinators really don't get the appreciation they deserve.
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* UnintentionallySympathetic: [[spoiler:Ordep]] worries about Pedro [[https://books.google.com/books?id=mfsDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA49#v=onepage&q&f=true taking credit for his stunt work]], to the extent of [[spoiler:replacing Pedro at an awards show to steal ''his'' glory, instead]]. While Eaton paints this as unfair on the double's part, his worry -- but not [[https://books.google.com/books?id=xfwDAAAAMBAJpg=PA45#v=onepage&q&f=true his means of dealing with it]] -- could seem understandable to readers who believe stunt people and coordinators really don't get the appreciation they deserve.

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* UnintentionallySympathetic: [[spoiler:Ordep]] worries about Pedro [[https://books.google.com/books?id=mfsDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA49#v=onepage&q&f=true taking credit for his stunt work]], to the extent of [[spoiler:replacing Pedro at an awards show to steal ''his'' glory, instead]]. While Eaton paints this as unfair on the double's part, his worry -- but not [[https://books.google.com/books?id=xfwDAAAAMBAJpg=PA45#v=onepage&q&f=true com/books?id=xfwDAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA3&pg=PA45#v=onepage&q&f=true his means of dealing with it]] -- could seem understandable to readers who believe stunt people and coordinators really don't get the appreciation they deserve.
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* BrokenBase: Readers during the transition between Tom Eaton and Stephen Gilpin can't seem to agree which of the two had/has a more appealing style.

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* BrokenBase: Readers during the transition between Tom Eaton and Stephen Gilpin can't seem to agree which of the two had/has had a more appealing style.
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This seems obsolete after the end of the comic


* ContinuityLockout: Unlike the other longest-running comics in ''Boys' Life'', Eaton's run on ''Pedro'' could prove confusing for readers coming in late, not to mention readers too young to have witnessed certain recurring characters' first appearances.

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* ContinuityLockout: Unlike the other longest-running comics in ''Boys' Life'', Eaton's run on ''Pedro'' could prove confusing for readers coming in late, not to mention readers too young to have witnessed certain recurring characters' first appearances.late.
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* MorePopularSpinoff: ''Wacky Adventures'' has managed to appear in more issues than Pedro's previous comic, ''The Pedro Patrol'', which ran from September 1969-December 1989.

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* MorePopularSpinoff: ''Wacky Adventures'' has managed to appear appeared in more issues than Pedro's previous comic, ''The Pedro Patrol'', which ran from September 1969-December 1989.
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Misuse. Does not mention audience avoiding work.


* EndingAversion: The end of Tom Eaton's run feels underwhelming, consisting of simply an old storyline, with its original final act replaced by an anti-climactic transition into Stephen Gilpin's comics. Even before the reruns, Eaton's apparent attempts to adapt the proportions of Pedro's cel-shaded designs resulted in uglier drawings.
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* UnintentionallySympathetic: [[spoiler:Ordep]] worries about Pedro [[https://books.google.com/books?id=mfsDAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA3&dq=boys'%20life%20may%202004&pg=PA49#v=onepage&q&f=true taking credit for his stunt work]], to the extent of [[spoiler:replacing Pedro at an awards show to steal ''his'' glory, instead]]. While Eaton paints this as unfair on the double's part, his worry -- but not [[https://books.google.com/books?id=xfwDAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA3&dq=boys'%20life%20august%202004&pg=PA45#v=onepage&q&f=true his means of dealing with it]] -- could seem understandable to readers who believe stunt people and coordinators really don't get the appreciation they deserve.

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* UnintentionallySympathetic: [[spoiler:Ordep]] worries about Pedro [[https://books.google.com/books?id=mfsDAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA3&dq=boys'%20life%20may%202004&pg=PA49#v=onepage&q&f=true com/books?id=mfsDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA49#v=onepage&q&f=true taking credit for his stunt work]], to the extent of [[spoiler:replacing Pedro at an awards show to steal ''his'' glory, instead]]. While Eaton paints this as unfair on the double's part, his worry -- but not [[https://books.google.com/books?id=xfwDAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA3&dq=boys'%20life%20august%202004&pg=PA45#v=onepage&q&f=true com/books?id=xfwDAAAAMBAJpg=PA45#v=onepage&q&f=true his means of dealing with it]] -- could seem understandable to readers who believe stunt people and coordinators really don't get the appreciation they deserve.
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* UnintentionallySympathetic: [[spoiler:Ordep]] worries about Pedro taking credit for his stunt work, to the extent of [[spoiler:replacing Pedro at an awards show to steal ''his'' glory, instead]]. While Eaton paints this as unfair on the double's part, his worry -- but not his means of dealing with it -- could seem understandable to readers who believe stunt people and coordinators really don't get the appreciation they deserve.

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* UnintentionallySympathetic: [[spoiler:Ordep]] worries about Pedro [[https://books.google.com/books?id=mfsDAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA3&dq=boys'%20life%20may%202004&pg=PA49#v=onepage&q&f=true taking credit for his stunt work, work]], to the extent of [[spoiler:replacing Pedro at an awards show to steal ''his'' glory, instead]]. While Eaton paints this as unfair on the double's part, his worry -- but not [[https://books.google.com/books?id=xfwDAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA3&dq=boys'%20life%20august%202004&pg=PA45#v=onepage&q&f=true his means of dealing with it it]] -- could seem understandable to readers who believe stunt people and coordinators really don't get the appreciation they deserve.
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* OlderThanTheyThink: ''Boys' Life'' gave Pedro alliterative nicknames as early as TheForties, when his adventures (printed in the ''Hitchin' Rack'' column rather than on full pages) relied mostly on text. Some ''Hitchin' Rack'' stories even had Pedro don human clothes, long before he began wearing a purple sweater all of the time.

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* OlderThanTheyThink: ''Boys' Life'' gave Pedro alliterative nicknames as early as TheForties, when his adventures (printed in the ''Hitchin' Rack'' column rather than on full pages) relied mostly on text. Some ''Hitchin' Rack'' stories even had Pedro don human clothes, long before he began wearing a purple sweater all of the time.time.
* UnintentionallySympathetic: [[spoiler:Ordep]] worries about Pedro taking credit for his stunt work, to the extent of [[spoiler:replacing Pedro at an awards show to steal ''his'' glory, instead]]. While Eaton paints this as unfair on the double's part, his worry -- but not his means of dealing with it -- could seem understandable to readers who believe stunt people and coordinators really don't get the appreciation they deserve.
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* NightmareFuel: Pedro's nightmares could become pretty freaky sometimes, such as [[https://books.google.com/books?id=2vwDAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA1&pg=PA57#v=onepage&q&f=true this one]] he has while floating through space without a helmet.

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* NightmareFuel: Pedro's nightmares could become pretty freaky sometimes, such as [[https://books.google.com/books?id=2vwDAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA1&pg=PA57#v=onepage&q&f=true this one]] he has while floating through space without a helmet.helmet.
* OlderThanTheyThink: ''Boys' Life'' gave Pedro alliterative nicknames as early as TheForties, when his adventures (printed in the ''Hitchin' Rack'' column rather than on full pages) relied mostly on text. Some ''Hitchin' Rack'' stories even had Pedro don human clothes, long before he began wearing a purple sweater all of the time.
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* MorePopularSpinoff: ''Wacky Adventures'' has managed to appear in more issues than Pedro's previous comic, ''The Pedro Patrol'', which ran from September 1969-December 1989.
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* ArchivePanic: If you want to either read or re-read a Wacky Adventure on Google Books, but can't remember the exact month and year in which ''Boys' Life'' published it, be prepared to scour several issues for it, since the search feature doesn't always work on comics.

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* ArchivePanic: If you want to either read or re-read a Wacky Adventure on ArchiveBinge: Google Books, but Books makes it relatively easier to enjoy ''Pedro'', or indeed any ''Boys' Life'' comic serial, without month-long gaps in between each page. Unfortunately, if you can't remember the exact month and year in which ''Boys' Life'' ''BL'' published it, a certain comic, be prepared to [[ArchivePanic scour several issues for it, it]], since the search feature doesn't always work on comics.
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* HilariousInHindsight: Regarding [[https://books.google.com/books?id=r_8DAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA4&vq=pedro&rview=1&pg=PA47#v=onepage&q&f=false this]] HalloweenEpisode, the sight of multiple Pedros would become less unusual after the addition of Ordep and Erpod/Derpo.
* NightmareFuel: Pedro's nightmares could become pretty freaky sometimes, such as [[https://books.google.com/books?id=2vwDAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA1&pg=PA57#v=onepage&q&f=false this one]] he has while floating through space without a helmet.

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* HilariousInHindsight: Regarding [[https://books.google.com/books?id=r_8DAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA4&vq=pedro&rview=1&pg=PA47#v=onepage&q&f=false com/books?id=r_8DAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA4&vq=pedro&rview=1&pg=PA47#v=onepage&q&f=true this]] HalloweenEpisode, the sight of multiple Pedros would become less unusual after the addition of Ordep and Erpod/Derpo.
* NightmareFuel: Pedro's nightmares could become pretty freaky sometimes, such as [[https://books.google.com/books?id=2vwDAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA1&pg=PA57#v=onepage&q&f=false com/books?id=2vwDAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA1&pg=PA57#v=onepage&q&f=true this one]] he has while floating through space without a helmet.
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* EndingAversion: The end of Tom Eaton's run feels underwhelming, consisting of simply an old storyline, with its original final act replaced by an anti-climactic transition into Stephen Gilpin's comics. Even before the reruns, the drawings look inexplicably uglier.

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* EndingAversion: The end of Tom Eaton's run feels underwhelming, consisting of simply an old storyline, with its original final act replaced by an anti-climactic transition into Stephen Gilpin's comics. Even before the reruns, Eaton's apparent attempts to adapt the drawings look inexplicably uglier.proportions of Pedro's cel-shaded designs resulted in uglier drawings.
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* BizarroEpisode: The strips with Pedro and Emeralda deformed and marooned on Parch[[note]][[https://books.google.com/books?id=ilJgUYY88R0C&lpg=PA1&pg=PA58#v=onepage&q&f=true November 2007]]-April 2008[[/note]] somehow stretch credibility even thinner than usual, and contribute nothing but delaying the duo's return to Earth from Owrplannit by a few months. They don't even explain how Pedro and Emeralda turned back to normal, or how she got her ship back from the SpacePirates.
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* EndingAversion: The end of Tom Eaton's run feels underwhelming, consisting of simply an old storyline, with its original final act replaced by an anti-climactic transition into Stephen Gilpin's comics.

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* EndingAversion: The end of Tom Eaton's run feels underwhelming, consisting of simply an old storyline, with its original final act replaced by an anti-climactic transition into Stephen Gilpin's comics. Even before the reruns, the drawings look inexplicably uglier.
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* NightmareFuel: Pedro's nightmares could become pretty freaky ''sometimes'', such as [[https://books.google.com/books?id=2vwDAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA1&pg=PA57#v=onepage&q&f=false this one]] he has while floating through space without a helmet.

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* NightmareFuel: Pedro's nightmares could become pretty freaky ''sometimes'', sometimes, such as [[https://books.google.com/books?id=2vwDAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA1&pg=PA57#v=onepage&q&f=false this one]] he has while floating through space without a helmet.
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* HilariousInHindsight: Regarding [[https://books.google.com/books?id=r_8DAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA4&vq=pedro&rview=1&pg=PA47#v=onepage&q&f=false this]] HalloweenEpisode, the sight of multiple Pedros would become less unusual after the addition of Ordep and Erpod/Derpo.

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* HilariousInHindsight: Regarding [[https://books.google.com/books?id=r_8DAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA4&vq=pedro&rview=1&pg=PA47#v=onepage&q&f=false this]] HalloweenEpisode, the sight of multiple Pedros would become less unusual after the addition of Ordep and Erpod/Derpo.Erpod/Derpo.
* NightmareFuel: Pedro's nightmares could become pretty freaky ''sometimes'', such as [[https://books.google.com/books?id=2vwDAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA1&pg=PA57#v=onepage&q&f=false this one]] he has while floating through space without a helmet.
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* EndingAversion: The end of Tom Eaton's run feels underwhelming, consisting of simply an old storyline, with its original final act replaced by an anti-climactic transition into Stephen Gilpin's comics.

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* EndingAversion: The end of Tom Eaton's run feels underwhelming, consisting of simply an old storyline, with its original final act replaced by an anti-climactic transition into Stephen Gilpin's comics.comics.
* HilariousInHindsight: Regarding [[https://books.google.com/books?id=r_8DAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA4&vq=pedro&rview=1&pg=PA47#v=onepage&q&f=false this]] HalloweenEpisode, the sight of multiple Pedros would become less unusual after the addition of Ordep and Erpod/Derpo.
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I don't even know whether or not Boys' Life acted upfront about the reruns.
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* ContinuityLockout: Unlike the other longest-running comics in ''Boys' Life'', Eaton's run on ''Pedro'' could prove confusing for readers coming in late, not to mention readers too young to have witnessed certain recurring characters' first appearances.

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* ContinuityLockout: Unlike the other longest-running comics in ''Boys' Life'', Eaton's run on ''Pedro'' could prove confusing for readers coming in late, not to mention readers too young to have witnessed certain recurring characters' first appearances.appearances.
* EndingAversion: The end of Tom Eaton's run feels underwhelming, consisting of simply an old storyline, with its original final act replaced by an anti-climactic transition into Stephen Gilpin's comics.
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* ContinuityLockout: Eaton's comics could prove confusing for readers coming in late, not to mention readers too young to have witnessed certain recurring characters' first appearances.

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* ContinuityLockout: Unlike the other longest-running comics in ''Boys' Life'', Eaton's comics run on ''Pedro'' could prove confusing for readers coming in late, not to mention readers too young to have witnessed certain recurring characters' first appearances.
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* ContinuityLockout: Eaton's comics could prove hard to understand for readers coming in late.

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* ContinuityLockout: Eaton's comics could prove hard to understand confusing for readers coming in late.late, not to mention readers too young to have witnessed certain recurring characters' first appearances.
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* BrokenBase: Readers during the transition between Tom Eaton and Stephen Gilpin can't seem to agree which of the two had/has a more appealing style.

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* BrokenBase: Readers during the transition between Tom Eaton and Stephen Gilpin can't seem to agree which of the two had/has a more appealing style.style.
* ContinuityLockout: Eaton's comics could prove hard to understand for readers coming in late.

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* OfficialFanSubmittedContent: One contest encouraged ''Boys' Life'' readers to submit Pedro fanart, to help inspire new Wacky Adventures. The resulting story had Pedro use his mirror-turned-time machine to visit a few different time periods (the runner-up drawings), until a crack in the mirror sent his top and bottom halves to AD 71,000 IO and AD 2 Tarentum, Italy, respectively (the grand prize-winning drawing).

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* OfficialFanSubmittedContent: One contest encouraged ArchivePanic: If you want to either read or re-read a Wacky Adventure on Google Books, but can't remember the exact month and year in which ''Boys' Life'' readers published it, be prepared to submit Pedro fanart, to help inspire new Wacky Adventures. The resulting story had Pedro use his mirror-turned-time machine to visit a few different time periods (the runner-up drawings), until a crack in scour several issues for it, since the mirror sent his top search feature doesn't always work on comics.
* BrokenBase: Readers during the transition between Tom Eaton
and bottom halves Stephen Gilpin can't seem to AD 71,000 IO and AD 2 Tarentum, Italy, respectively (the grand prize-winning drawing).agree which of the two had/has a more appealing style.
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* OfficialFanSubmittedContent: One contest encouraged ''Boys' Life'' readers to submit Pedro fanart, to help inspire new Wacky Adventures. The resulting story had Pedro use his mirror-turned-time machine to visit a few different time periods (the runner-up drawings), until a crack in the mirror sent his top and bottom halves to AD 71,000 IO and AD 2 Tarentum, Italy, respectively (the grand prize-winning drawing).

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