But I still have local copies of everything--I just haven't gotten around to uploading it all again. So here's what I'm going to do: on August 20, 2009, I'm going to relaunch the strip. I'll restart it with the strips that have already run (which gives me a nice eight-month buffer), though I want to make some minor revisions to some of the old strips (among other things, I'm going to redo the text in more readable fonts). Now, one thing that's made me balk at doing this is that, well, August 20, 2009 doesn't fall on the same day of the week as August 20, 2000, which means that according to my old schedule the Sunday strips won't actually be falling on Sundays. But you know what? I've decided that really doesn't matter. (Now, leap years are going to throw another minor wrench into things, but I'll worry about that when it comes up.)
So... check back August 20, 2009 for the return of Soup. Which hopefully should seriously stay daily this time.