The Book of Bill

Bill announces that life has no meaning except what you make of it and leaves a blank space for the reader to write whatever they feel the meaning of life is. To explain his point, he tells his own life story.

The first page, titled “My Story,” depicts Bill’s shape under floral wallpaper, looming in the eerie dark. Bill provides his baby picture, wherein he is wearing large Velcro shoes and has a gigantic watery eye, and explains he was beloved by all on his 2D home universe, so much so that the mayor announced his birthday as a holiday. However, he was uniquely able to see the third dimension. Talking about it was illegal, and nobody believed him. He decided to put on a show to prove himself right; his description of the show is mostly glitched out, as he blacks out when he tries to recount it, but snippets imply he brutally murdered everyone on his home world before leaving to become a “galactic overlord.”

Bill forms a group of “henchmaniacs,” which include: Pyronica, the beauty queen arsonist; 8-Ball, the bounty-hunter eater and “muscle” of the group; Teeth, the pet; Keyhole, the locksmith and spy; Amorphous Shape, the “distraction”; Dan Crableman, the “lawyer” (who seems to be a literal crab); and several others Bill names but does not describe.