Hey, so we hate to do this so soon after changing the schedule up but yeah, it has to be done.

Dionysus is going on hiatus.

This will last a month at the most, and we’re doing it because there are some major changes in the works.

First off, we’re rewriting Book One. We were never really satisfied with the story we told, and believe it was one of the weaker parts of the comic keeping people back. We’re going to be taking the time to to fix what we felt were definite problems with the narrative structure, as well as the starting art not meeting current standards.

This is something we’ve wanted to do for a while, and while we considered doing it at the same time as continuing updates, we feel that splitting attention would let both suffer. It will also bring a slight change of format, as we’ll be breaking the books up into discrete chapters to better help flow.

So while yes, things will be starting over from the beginning, this time it will make a lot more sense, and take far less time to get to relevant action. And there will be new jokes too. We’ve learned a lot over the last almost year.

As for the current backlog of pages we have ready to post, we don’t necessarily intend to post them. If you want to see them, just ask and we can send you them, or an overwhelming response might make us post them anyway.

Thanks for sticking with us, and we promise, this won’t die here.

stellar-indulgence:

The combination of Titan’s low gravity and thick atmosphere would allow a human to fly by strapping “fake wings” to their arms.

The second-largest moon in the solar system, Saturn’s Titan is the only moon with a substantial atmosphere, which is much deeper than Earth’s. It’s so thick and the gravity so weak, in fact, that you could strap wings on your arms and flap them like a bird to fly. The air is mostly nitrogen, but the rest is mostly hydrocarbons, giving Titan’s atmosphere a thick orange smoggy haze that is opaque to visible light. Cassini studies Titan in infrared light (which can penetrate the haze) and with radar — and in 2004, via the Huygens Probe, an atmosphere probe became the first spacecraft to transmit from the surface of a moon other than our own. Titan is remarkably earthlike, apart from being so cold that water is as hard as rock; in addition to the atmosphere, it is the only place other than Earth known to have bodies of liquid on the surface — lakes as large as the Great Lakes, except that it’s not water: it’s probably methane or ethane. The climate is probably similar to some of our deserts, with gigantic monsoons perhaps once a decade or more, and long droughts between. NASA scientists are working on a mission called Titan Mare Explorer (TiME) specifically to study the lakes of Titan.

Read the full text here: http://mentalfloss.com/ It’s Raining on Titan! Illustration Credit & Copyright: David A. Hardy (AstroArt)

piecesofspace: Gliding silently through the outer Solar System, the Voyager 2 spacecraft camera captured Neptune and Triton together in crescent phase in 1989. The elegant picture of the gas giant planet and its cloudy moon was taken from behind just after closest approach. Neptune is smaller but more massive than Uranus, has several dark rings, and emits more light than it receives from the Sun. Via Nasa Image of the Day
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piecesofspace:

Gliding silently through the outer Solar System, the Voyager 2 spacecraft camera captured Neptune and Triton together in crescent phase in 1989.

The elegant picture of the gas giant planet and its cloudy moon was taken from behind just after closest approach. Neptune is smaller but more massive than Uranus, has several dark rings, and emits more light than it receives from the Sun.

Via Nasa Image of the Day