Should Beetle Bailey Meet the Grim Reaper?

Today's medianote was based on a Los Angeles Times article entitled "Comic strips' plight isn't funny" that was in the April 27 Calendar section. According to the article, newspaper comic strips are falling on hard times. Space available in newspapers for comic strips is shrinking, and what is available often is given over to long-time comic strips like "Blondie" or "Peanuts Classics." These two are what the article calls "legacy strips," comic strips that continue on after the original creator as died.

Some comic strip creators, including Berkeley Breathed of "Opus" and Wiley Miller of "Non Sequitur" believe that legacy strips are taking up newspaper space that ought to be given over to newer, fresher, edgier comic strips. On the other side of this controversy is Cathy Guisewite of "Cathy" who believes that the legacy strips are classics that should live forever. Her solution is that newspapers should simply give over more space for comic strips.

I'm cool with any arrangement that that will keep "Brewster Rockit" in the Times.