Oh, I just figured you were hooked on all things Straub

It's not related to the plot, he decided he can't do all the work on the comic himself any more, so he's hiring a whole staff and going into serious production. It's been on indefinite hiatus but once he hires more people it will start going again so that's good news. If you're into that sort of thing.
New VG Cats is out, and it's as up to date as ever.
And the one before that was about Pokemon GO.
SO CURRENT ;O;
The advantage of webcomics over printed editions was that they didn't spend months in the pipeline and could react to current events faster. Someone should tell Ramsoomair that.