Personally I'd prefer the strip to have an internally consistent timeframe. That is, it would bug me more if they hit Christmas every 50 strips or so and didn't age than it would if the story line was taking place in July and the strip was published in December. There are some strips that I like to see reflecting current events, but then there are others where what I care about is the story of the characters, etc., and Freebird is one of the latter for me. I guess it mainly depends on what sort of a strip you want it to be!

-Sarah D in CA