The station’s timeline is getting a bit tangled, but by the end of this month, the crew should be back on the right one. Or something close to it, anyway! Or at least they’ll be back to *one* timeline… Maybe. (I don’t think that’s giving too much away…)

Meanwhile, back in our version of reality, I just paid the hosting bill for comicostrich.com, so Station V3 has its home here online for (at least) another year! (And so do Z7, Ebb’s Children, the forums, etc.)

Thank You to everyone who voted for Station V3 last month! To get things started this month, there are three new bonuses up today: a rumor about the rumormongers’ dance contest, a semi-animated sprite strip in which two rumormongers react to the rumor, and a bad translation of today’s strip. Thanks for voting, and thanks for reading!

* The Station V3 archives are now over 70% transcribed at Oh No Robot – Thank You to everyone who’s been helping with that, especially Kerinbot!

* Today’s first bonus is another semi-animated sprite strip in which the rumormongers discuss their dance competition.

* Today’s second bonus is a bad translation of today’s strip.

Two new bonus strips today… First, by request, a slightly animated sprite strip in which the Rumormongers discuss “Rumor Has It You Can Dance,” and second, a bad translation of today’s strip. (Starts off okay, then gets a bit weird once it reaches the “double poppet!”)

Well, looks like the IAU astronomers *did* hate last week’s 12-planet proposal, since they’ve decided instead on a definition that calls eight of the things out there “planets,” three others “dwarf planets” (which is an odd term to use if they want those to be distinct from “planets”), and I guess Charon just winds up being Pluto the Dwarf’s moon. Oh well… “promotion” for Ceres, “demotion” for Pluto, and they’re all out there orbiting the Sun like nothing’s changed anyway.

(So… My Very Expensive Machine Just Scooped Up Neptune?)

Two new bonuses today (here and here) on two requested topics at once – What happened to the guys from Rumormonger Idol, and what’s their equivalent of So You Think You Can Dance?

Thanks for voting!