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Zobbo the Gobbo #31 Sunday June 25th 2006
"Two Men in a Box part 4: I would not have done this yesterday" copyright 2005 Rik Davnall, all rights reserved
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Well, here's a major turning point for Zobbo. All told, I'm quite pleased with the look of this
page. It's really hard to keep a single conversation looking interesting when it's just two guys
in a small, bare room, each trying to figure the other one out. I keep having to try new things,
like panel 4 (the second one on the left-hand side; I know that's not very clear). The shadow
shouldn't really be that strong, but it worked out alright.
I finished reading Alastair Reynolds' 'Absolution Gap' yesterday. As the final volume in a sequence
(there is no indication of this anywhere on the cover, which is why it's the first Reynolds novel
I've ever read >_<), I found it a little hard to understand in places. A lot of references flew
by me at first, but I picked up most of them along the way. It's a pretty damn good novel for
the most part, exciting, tense, strange and very imaginative. There are some annoying patches
with Rashmika's frustratingly slow journey across Hela, but they're mixed up with enough
interesting stuff about Scorpio and the Araratians to prevent it upsetting the general pace of
the story. The ending, however, is brutally disappointing. Let's go all the way across the
galaxy, leaving too many friends behind and taking some horrible risks, only to discover that
the lead we've been following is the wrong one, that we've put our faith in the wrong person,
that Scorpio (a character one cannot help but like, even though he seems to take hundreds of
wrong decisions and complain a lot) was right all along, and oh, here's a Deus ex Machina to
do what we wanted the lead to do anyway that there's been almost no clue of the existence of
until right at the last moment. This is not a short book, and from what I've seen neither are
its prequels. The ending (and the final bit of denouement too) represent a reprehensible
betrayal by Mr. Reynolds of his fans. That said, I'm still going to buy the rest of the sequence,
because for all his plot failings, Reynolds has created an awe-inspiringly complex world, which
never loses touch with intelligible reality despite his best attempts to do so with an ever-
increasing arsenal of gross violations of the laws of physics.
Anyway, that was a very long paragraph... Um, what else is news? Well, it looks (unfortunately)
like Suzumiya is only going to be 14 episodes long, which means there're only two episodes
left :( Still, those two are likely to be two of the best of the series ^_^
Oh, and I'm in the early stages of redoing the DrunkenScribblings site again. I've got a lot
of planning to do, and there are still substantial bits of programming that I need to learn
as well, but I've got the whole summer ahead of me.
Wub, Rik
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