The next page of Volume 9 has been posted:
Just to provide another quick update about production, a major push in getting page artwork done has been going on. The main reason being that I'm a bit excited about doing the artwork reboot, but I can't actually start it until I've got Volume 10 in the can. I'm going to be moving over to a completely new set of applications for processing the templates due to my vector art program finally being obsolete in the next version of OS X. So I want to make sure that I have a few months to make the transition.
That's not to say that there might not be a bit of a hiatus in the future, but it is definitely looking like it wouldn't be a hiatus between this volume and the next one. I should be able to maintain a pretty regular output of pages for quite a while now.
... and I'm sorry, no update on the continuation of the 2.0 version of the comic yet.