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Tuesday Trending Topics: Party Like It's 2005

Published Wed, 07 Mar 2012 02:12:06 -0600

Last updated Wed, 07 Mar 2012 02:12:20 -0600

There's always some new thing going on about the business of nostalgia. Nostalgia may not be a business model… except of course it is, and in comics we've made it both church and state — and then we periodically burn it down and do it all over again. Which has little to do with anything, except 21 Jump Street's nostalgia for 2005 makes me laugh.

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