I am both apologising and rescinding my apology for the person I will be until, during, and after The Book of Bill is released. My brain is just going a million miles an hour wondering what the hell kind of lore, artwork, codes, and other new shit is in this book.
One of my favourite horror artists hinted at being involved, and he makes some fucking SCARY artwork. It has an adult rating on Disney Publishing's website. It's explicitly marketed towards older readers on the cover and every website, regardless of the different age ratings provided by each distributor.
Also from the announcement video/loop gif, we have:
-DID YOU MISS ME (cipher code on spine)
-LET ME OUT (morse code in audio)
-A glimpse of the cover turning into that of J3 ("lost pages" included in the book)
-A glimpse of the inverted black & white Bill, similar to the way he looks when first summoned in Dreamscaperers
-The summoning circle/zodiac glowing and shimmering on the back
-The photorealistic eye protruding from the back and looking around
-"Some other...mystic... dimension."
-"Once there was a very jazzy triangle..."
-"Who can testify as to the wickedry... of the triangle false idol?"
-A glimpse of fire ("Saw his own dimension burn. Misses home and can't return."???)
-The manic laughter lifted direct from Weirdmageddon, when the deal is made.
-The stone statue in the woods, of course.
on top of all this the Oregon Parks Department dummy twitter profile run by Alex keeps making random references to marmots and UV rays which has caused theories that 1) Blacklight edition coming???? and 2) reincarnation theory is real and Bill is now a yellow-bellied marmot somewhere in Gravity Falls who has managed to write a whole ass autobiography or whatever
what the FUCK is going ON