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Tuesday, September 05, 2006
Pedro Penduko comes to TV
ABS-CBN is proud to announce the start of the most lavish production of Komiks to date: Komiks Presents: Da Adventures of Pedro Penduko.
For the first time ever, the hit anthology Komiks will be using the multi-episode story format to present the story of the classic komiks hero Pedro Penduko, one of the earliest and most beloved fantasy heroes in komiks history.
Pedro’s story started in Liwayway magazine 1954 through theimagination of Francisco V. Coching, considered the dean of Filipino illustrators and the dean of Filipino komiks.
A strong plot underlines this production. We are introduced to Pedro (Matt Evans) a teenager raised by his loving grandmother (Gloria Romero). A simple and very ordinary boy, Pedro constantly gets picked on by neighborhood bullies. To escape his harsh reality, Pedro has built up an elaborate fantasy life—a life full of diwatas, engkantos, duwendes and all sorts of characters from Filipino mythology—which he uses to entertain his grandmother and neighborhood kids.
One day, however, he stumbles upon the reason that he was given to his lola’s care—his father (Albert Martinez), a gifted healer, was kidnapped by the dalaketnons, or evil engkantos. It is now Pedro’s mission to go to the kingdom of Floreshka and save his father—while realizing that all the creatures he’d heard about and talked about are all true.
Spongecola sings the original theme song for the series—a new song called Bitiw.
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