Sal and Gabi: What will be next with Universe(s)?

Everyone, how you all doing? I am back with more articles (though exactly not the articles I updated about). So, anybody watched the recent Marvel TV show Loki? Well, I watched it and enjoyed it too. This show opened the idea of MCM (Marvel Cinematic Multi-verse) from MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe). And then the word ‘multi-verse’ rang a bell in my head.

Well, the entire RRP or Rick Riordan Presents fans know about Sal and Gabi series of which Sal and Gabi Break the Universe was featured in the Washington Post's 'KidsPost Summer Book Club'. Anyway, those who don’t know, I want you to leave this page at once and read the book. Sal and Gabi is filled with culture and science that every sci-fi reader will like. Rick Riordan Presents mainly publishes books filled with fantasy and magical stuffs. But this series is though filled with fantasy, also contains scientifically magical stuffs.

In the last interview with the Half-Blood Report, Carlos Hernandez, the author of Sal and Gabi series confirmed that he was signed with Disney for writing only two books. But can’t fans wish for more when there was a cliff-hanger at the end of the last book? Well, we’re certainly going to talk about it.

Let’s start but first with a bit of a warning for those who still didn’t leave the page and read the book if he/she didn’t yet read it…

Warning: This article contains spoilers from Sal and Gabi Break the Universe and Sal and Gabi Fix the Universe by Carlos Hernandez.

 

Part 1: What comes next?

When you read the last sentence you’d have thought there will be book three of this series as unlike the first book, the sentence was: “But the answer to that question is a whole ’nother story.” I also thought the same thing until I heard the mentioned interview.

So, what the “ ’nother story” is? Well, sentence had come in the context of FixGabi asking FixSal how he was alive though she had seen him sacrifice himself for her. This question can be answered by Carlos in two ways (if he would write a third book).

First, Carlos will have to change the point of view to FixSal (though in that case he cannot be called FixSal and it’d confuse the readers, which is good). Another way is the present Sal will quote the whole incident: at first we’ll see Sal listening, and then the POV will directly change to FixSal.

But I think the best to do is giving Gabi, FixGabi or any Gabi the POV. If you read the title of the series it says Sal and Gabi where we also find Gabi. I won’t say that it was wrong giving Sal POV only, but giving Gabi a POV would make the series cooler. By the way, when I was thinking of writing a series, I also had the idea of changing POVs in each books.

But the thing is, Carlos only signed for two books and there can’t be no way he can write any more books … except, if Carlos renews the contract for writing a new book, in which case the whole fandom will be happy, I mean very very happy.

 

Part 2: Purpose of the cliffhanger

The cliffhanger at the end of the first book is truly something that made the fans hungrier. But it had one thing that opened something for all of us: an opportunity to imagine. Imagining the next plot is very fascinating.

There will be maybe many fan-fictions that will reveal the cliffhanger, but I hope Carlos will come up with a new book. It is actually torturous for someone like me especially with a book that is filled with fun and stuffs. Thinking of the wide expanse Carlos’s imagination went is truly something that holds me up to imagine the next plot. I mean, will I be able to think of the whole thing that mixes up with the complex tangles of multi-verse.

Rick Riordan also did the same thing with The Tower of Nero. It was announced earlier that The Tower of Nero will be the last book of the ‘Camp Half-Blood Chronicles’ or the Percy Jackson world. But in the end there was a cliffhanger with Nico and Will.

In one of ‘The Half-Blood Report’s episodes, or any of Samuel and Diego’s videos, Rick or Carlos (I can’t remember at this moment) said that the purpose of this cliffhanger is to give the readers a place to imagine the next. [The links to all the episodes related to this article will be available orderly at the end.]

 

Part 3: Any more to look for?

Yes, there is something the fans can obviously find, and I can assure you about that. If you’ve gone through ‘Read Riordan’ platforms or if you’re an active Riordan fan, you can know that there is an upcoming anthology from Rick Riordan Presents with the title: The Curse Carnival and Other Calamities that is filled with stories from many writers of RRP.

Among these writers you can find Carlos Hernandez, and that’d be easily done if you just look at the cover of this book. And the writers won’t write other stories except stories related to their own universe. So, Sal and Gabi fans (I am included there), I think we can at least expect a short story related to this universe.

The short story can be any story by Carlos, but I think it can be the “ ’nother story” Carlos mentioned at the end of Sal and Gabi Fix the Universe. I wonder how he’ll explain the “story” in a story not a whole book. Well, you can expect the unexpected when it comes to Rick Riordan or Rick Riordan Presents authors.

 

Part 4: Carlos’s Brilliant Exploring

Exploring the multi-verse is somehow a hard job when you’ve to explain it and go through it unlike the movies or shows that give you a visual or CGI effects to show the multi-verse. But Carlos’s did an excellent job to explain it and design it in such a way that you’d be flattered quickly.

Through the multi-verse and its opportunities opened in Sal and Gab series, Carlos Hernandez could explore many possibilities with various outcomes. This opportunity is something you don’t get often, but Carlos wisely used the chance and builds a story that’s able to contest any other multiversal stories.

While in the present universe Carlos explored friendship among the leading characters, Carlos found a way to explore the romanticism among the leading characters in another universe. But when it came to family, Carlos made a nice entanglement among the Vidon family and family business in the wide multiverse.

Speaking of family, we should bring the Reál family in which Gabi belongs too. Reál family is really open-minded and its members except anyone outside in a way that you might forget that you had a scratchy past, like Yasmany did.

He also stitched a story filled with normal events that happens in our daily lives. Like, he brought the fact that Iggy is sick (and very very sick). This brought a lot of events that acted as main gears to turn the path of the story. He didn’t ignore the daily life events, rather he emphasized in these events bringing them in a different level to build up the story.

Carlos also brought a whole school and the inside and outside of it. Culeco Academy doesn’t only rival those schools that stress its students, but it encourages all to build an education institution for children who cannot only learn but have fun while doing it. He also highlighted several events of school and he just did a great job in channeling various ideas of school events in all of us.

It would be a really big article if I bring every point of Carlos’s accomplishments here, but as it is not such thing, I have to stop here. But if anyone still dared to read till here, I suggest you to read Sal and Gabi series right now!

 

Part 5: Endless fun

Carlos is just the right person in parties where you want to laugh out loud. Those who watched the videos or joined the event of Making of the Myth by Rick Riordan Presents would’ve of course known how funny Carlos can be. Just see the second video of this event where he is… okay, find out yourself.

So, you can obviously guess how funny Carlos Hernandez is. His two books are really funny and full of stuffs that will make you laugh hard. You can find toilet with class-nine artificial intelligence, and even artificial intelligence getting married.

Each and every materials related to Sal and Gabi series will make you laugh (I am not only telling of smiling). Even the cover and the character-arts are funny. If you see the latest covers for both books, you can locate the change of Sal and Gabi’s impression to each other in both books.

I mean, wherever Carlos is, you can of course find hundred percent laugh.

 

Part 6: Conclusion

Concluding this article is a bit hard. I cannot write more except spoiling the whole plot which I really don’t want to do even though I attached a spoiler alert at the beginning. For most of you, it’d be just another boring Fandom article (except if you want to get a quick reminder without reading the book).

I am really eager to read the story with Sal and Gabi in the upcoming anthology The Cursed Carnival and Other Calamities and also other Riordan stories. And just stick with Carlos in his social platforms for many more funs [link at the end]. Bye, see you soon in the next article featuring Paola Santiago and the Forest of Nightmares book by Tehlor Kay Santiago.

 

 

 

 

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Note: I don’t know how successful I was writing this article, but this one is shorter than the most. I didn’t know how I could add more info without spoiling the whole book, but I think this article must be enough to remind you of the upcoming anthology The Cursed Carnival and Other Calamities from Rick Riordan Presents, and also remind you of the fun we shared, though not directly but as readers and friends, when reading Sal and Gabi series.

And congratulation Sal and Gabi Break the Universe for being featured in Washington Post’s KidsPost  Summer Book Club.

Disclaimer: The article-art is illustrated and filtered by Md. Iman Anwar ║ Sal and Gabi and related works are owned by Carlos Hernandez with other side materials (including character arts and Culeco Academy art) by ‘Read Riordan’ ║ Sal and Gabi old cover arts is owned copyright by © by Andrea Galecio; cover letterings copyright © by Saskia Buen; with cover designs by Mary Claire Cruz ║ Sal and Gabi new cover arts is owned copyright by © by Andrea Galecio; cover lettering copyright © by Saskia Bueno; with cover design by Mary Claire Cruz ║ Carlos Hernandez cut from Rick and Carlos Talk Sal & Gabi video by ‘Read Riordan’ ║ Astronomical cut from Aldebaran in Unspalsh.

Extra links: Making of the Myth - part 1 ║ Making of the Myth - part 2 ║ Carlos and Rick Talks Sal & Gabi the Universe 

The Half-Blood Report episodes: 56. An interview w/ (Uncle) Rick Riordan ║ 9. An interview w/ Carlos Hern-Dad-ez ║ 33. An interview w/ FixCarlos Hernandez 

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