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Black screen, text appears.
Text Narration: Linkara recently began a journey to restore his magic gun to life. He is in good health and good spirits as he travels.
Gilligan Cut to Linkara on his journey, who is not exactly in high spirits.
Linkara: I am so lost!
Cut back to narration.
Text Narration: Because of this perilous journey, he made sure to record and edit his 200th episode in advance.
Text fades out, Linkara fades in, his chin on his clasped hands.
Linkara: Well... We made it, people. Two hundred episodes. So...what can I possibly review for such an occasion?
A quick beat as Linkara thinks upon it, then smiles looking back towards the camera.
Linkara: Okay, what the hell. Let's review One More Day.
Credits play. Footage from the previous 199 episodes showing him holding up the comic he's going to review play in a rapid fire manner as the full version of the theme song plays. The final shot of the intro is Linkara holding the "prized jewel" of his collection, a term we're using VERY loosely, with a smile that has to say "yeah, I'm finally reviewing this piece of shit and I'm not afraid to do it either".
Title card. Fade to Linkara.
Linkara: If there's a single story that has hung over this show since the first episode, it's One More Day.
Footage from various episodes play, pointing out various spots in the episodes that make Linkara's derision of this story very apparent.
Linkara: Yeah, I think I may have brought it up once or twice.
The cover of the trade and footage of the Top 15 Comics I'll Never Review appears.
Linkara (VO): The more nitpicky among you may also recall that I stated that my only problem with the book was the ending, and the rest of it was fine. Others will say that it's completely unnecessary, since I've technically already reviewed the comic in my Top 15 Comics I'll Never Review episode, wherein I spoke for five minutes about the thing that angered me so about this story.
Linkara: Well, first of all, that's not really a review, that's me ranting about a plot point. Secondly, I decided to take another look at it...and, you know what? There's a hell of a lot more that's wrong with this crap than just the ending.
Zoom out of One More Day Part Four of Four cover.
Linkara (VO): And I'm sure there is one other complaint that people would have with me doing this; that would be, "Come on, Linkara. It's been five years since One More Day. Are you still not over this?"
Linkara: Nope! Not at all! However, even if I WAS 'over it', there's one underlying problem. It's still a bad story! It was a bad story in 2007, and it's a bad story now!
Cover of Cry for Justice.
Linkara (VO): Cry for Justice sucked in 2009 and it still sucks now!
Cover of Youngblood #1.
Linkara (VO): Youngblood sucked in 1992, and it still sucks now!
Linkara: And guess what, this is Atop the Fourth Wall, where bad comics burn! Let's dig into Spider-Man: One More Day, and break down why this thing sucks!
The covers for the original comics appear.
Linkara (VO): I'm reading from a trade, so no analysis of the covers. However, the covers are where you will find my few compliments to this book. The first three parts feature kind of a retro style to them with exaggerated, melodramatic captions. The fourth book avoids that but has great symbolism on the broken picture of him and Mary Jane, kind of echoing that broken photo from Identity Crisis. It's just a good image to use for this.
Cut back to Linkara.
Linkara: Now before we get into the book itself, there's a lot of backstory to cover here, so I think it's necess-
The screen turns to static, cutting off Linkara's review before it has actually began. When the static vanishes, Bennet the Sage turns up, donning his Devil outfit.
Devil!Bennet: Hello, Linkara...it is I. The Devil!
Cut back to Linkara, who's less than impressed.
Linkara: Oh. Hi, Bennet.
Cut back to Devil Sage.
Devil!Bennet: Not Bennet...the Devil! I've come to you with an offer to-
Linkara cuts in, not wishing to deal with this bullshit.
Linkara: To exchange my soul, or my show, or my non-existent marriage to erase One More Day, right?
Devil!Bennet: Well...yeah, I-
Linkara: Not interested. Goodbye.
Bennet drops the act, and his hood, frustrated with Linkara.
Bennet the Sage: Ugh, come on, man. I went and put on the costume, can you play out the bid?
Linkara: THE BID IS DEAD, BENNET! Not to mention the deal doesn't take place for another three issues! You can make the offer again when it actually comes up in the comic!
Bennet lightens up quickly.
Bennet the Sage: Oh, okay, see you then!
The review finally gets back on track as pages of the infamous Civil War are shown. WARNING: huge wall of text ahead.
Linkara: So, anyway, backstory... In 2006, Marvel released its standard big crossover event, Civil War. The premise is that after an incident involving superheroes results in the deaths of six hundred people, including sixty children, the American Government rushes out a Superhero Registration Act that forces all superheroes to reveal their identity to the government, and officially fall under federal mandate. Iron Man lead the charge in the Pro-Registration camp while Captain America lead a faction of heroes who opposed it. Civil War has a lot of problems, not the least of which being that Marvel refused to actually say what Superhuman Registration Act stated, leading to different books intepreting it differently. Now, Marvel's excuse was that the act was just 'so long and complicated that there was no way to release it in full, and could be interpreted in different ways', but I call bullcrap on that! It's lazy writing, plain and simple. The other big problem with the book was the ending. Despite the fact that the Pro-Registration side was villified not only throughout the main book, but also the tie-ins, the book ended with the Pro-Registration side winning, and a follow-up interview stated that they were supposed to be the right side all along! I haven't decided yet if I'm ever gonna do a full review of Civil War, mostly because it's a very polarizing, pollitically charged book, but needless to say, it's not very good. Now where does Spidey fit into all of this? Well, to make a long story short, Aunt May had discovered Peter's identity as Spider-Man, and after an incident where their home had been destroyed, Tony invited Peter, Mary Jane, and Aunt May to live in Avengers Tower. Spidey was also a member of the Avengers at the time.