“Journalist” Theme in 2.7?

Nothing breaks, it works fine in 2.7.

It currently does not support threaded and paged comments but aside from that many people use it.

Adding the threaded comments are not difficult and I was able to do so just by reading Otto and Jeremy’s posts.

Update the comments.php
http://ottodestruct.com/blog/2008/09/29/wordpress-27-comments-enhancements/

Optional callback functionality
http://clarktech.no-ip.com/wordpress/wordpress-27-comment-callback-function