That said, I personally have always liked Foxtrot. Like the family or no, Amend has some of the consistently best pacing and accessibility in strips today. And the pop culture stuff tends to hold up - reading the early strips, I often had no familiarity with what Jason was talking about, but the gags worked regardless. They were just trappings, opportunities for gags. Without taking advantage of Jason's penchant for pop culture, or the dad's penchant for ruining new home technology, or Paige's penchant for falling in love with the Tiger Beat boy of the year, we'd be left with Snuffy Smith-style character gags that would have gotten stale a decade ago. Comics can only subsist on those for so long. Even Calvin had to bow out after a mere ten years, and Pogo (one of the best ever, in my opinion) started dealing with contemporary politics after being purely character-centric for the same reason. I don't think we can fault Amend for having created a formula for keeping his stuff fresh.

Not trying to start an argument, just wanting to point out that some of us do like this strip. Again, it's one of the only consistently funny ones being published these days, in with maybe four or five others.