Oct 4, 2026 : Written by 404EthanNotFound
F*CK Billionaires
Let’s be honest. There is quite a bit of negativity swirling throughout everyday life these days. The stress of everyday life is vast, not to mention the tumultuous state of the world. I spend most of my day working and driving. If life was a videogame, I would critique that the developer has hidden away the actual fun parts in favor of never-ending grinding. This monotony under our capitalist system can create feelings of depression, fatigue, and rage. Luckily, I was able to get a fleeting, but thorough level of relief by reading a new graphic novel by Jim Di Bartolo entitled ‘F*CK Billionaires’.
‘F*CK Billionaires’ was a successful Kickstarter project in 2025 which features 300 pages of gorgeous hand-drawn artwork which held my interest from the first page. The story centers around the untold and immense power of billionaires and a unknown force which plans to take them down a peg, or twenty!
This graphic novel does a great job at showing the harms that billionaires wreak on our society through their hoarding of wealth and the immense influence they wield because of it. Mysterious messages keep appearing on skyscrapers around the world. Their origin is unknown, but there message could not be clearer. Billionaires should not exist!
The plot works very well as catharsis. It is nice to see billionaires experience the level of fear and misery that they impose on the world daily. In addition, many familiar faces from leftist independent media are here as cameos which I was ecstatic to see. It is a ton of fun to read, especially when the reader understands the various current event references and recognizes media figures from our world.
If you are in need of a thrilling story where billionaires get a taste of their own medicine ‘F*CK Billionaires’ is for you. Click the book cover below to visit Jim Di Bartolo’s online store and get a copy for yourself. Physical copies appear to be limited while supplies last but I do hope that if physical stock is depleted, Di Bartolo will make an eBook version or .pdf of the whole adventure available because this story is something you will not want to miss!
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Spoiler warning for ‘F*CK Billionaires’, ‘Death Note’, and ‘Mr. Robot’ ahead.
I enjoyed reading ‘F*CK Billionaires’ quite a bit. Though this does not mean that it was perfect. I will admit, I was on the edge of my seat to see if Di Bartolo could give a satisfying explanation for all of the incredible feats that are pulled off by the billionaire killer. Was this a group of highly coordinated individuals? How were the skyscrapers consistently being painted without anyone seeing a thing? How was so little evidence collected at each murder scene? The answer both made perfect sense, but also saddened me. The solution…time travel, or to be more accurate, time stopping abilities. Valerie ‘Val’ Cooper, one of the first characters we are introduced to, is revealed to be able to freeze time. She has been secretly carrying out every major plot point and is conducting a vendetta against billionaires to avenge her murdered parents.
My issue does not lie within the explanation, nor the motive for how Val operates. Moreso, my issue lies in the way that the world is changed and how a monopoly of violence is deployed against everyone. The closing set piece of the story involves all remaining billionaires seemingly teleported to the White House lawn and systematically ‘encouraged’ to repudiate their wealth or face certain death. The global population is advised that if any member hoards wealth to billionaire status (not quite sure how conversion rates play into this, but that would be a serious nitpick) they will be swiftly and violently dealt with because she will be watching. Val conducts this entire plot anonymously and is not even a suspect when all is said and done. As far as the world is concerned, God is real and they hate billionaires.
Val will not live forever, so immediately her solution has an end date. Val is the only person in the world to showcase supernatural time abilities which effectively gives her a monopoly of force against any adversary. I suppose it is fortuitous that Val decided to use her abilities to promote class solidarity, but imagine a world in which billionaires or despots had this ability
Herein lies my major issue with this graphic novel. The way in which Val saves the world from billionaires is to showcase her monopoly of force against them and threaten to murder anyone who dares try and oppose her vision of society. It feels very much like Light Yagami at the close of Death Note pointing out how his actions as the supernatural killer ‘Kira’ had caused violent crime to plummet worldwide. Society may have been improved by these metrics, but the new world was imposed by force from above. I wish more time had been spent showing a growing movement and groundswell of anti-billionaire sentiment beyond what we see in our current lives. In the face of such an insane display of violence at the White House near the outset of the adventure, it is hard to believe that everything would finally be hunky-dory after divine intervention just destroyed the world order as we know it.
Humanity in this story can only be described as passive. Many of the story beats begin by checking in with social media to see what people are saying about the latest billionaire murder. Aside from posting to social media, no one appears to be doing anything. The investigators are never generate any substantial leads and Val gives an Oscar worthy acting performance for her entire life. I understand that having a population locked into working from dawn till dusk leaves folks limited on what else they can do, but akin to a story like Mr. Robot, I would have liked to see the people reclaim their agency rather than have it gifted to them by a benevolent god-figure.
If the message of the story is that no one person should be able to impose their will upon the world, through politics or through influence, the message is muddled by granting Val the sole ability to be judge, jury, and executioner. It’s like the concept of a ‘good’ billionaire. There is no such thing which is why no one should have the sole ability to dictate the path of society, even if Val’s intentions are pure. It is cathartic to see billionaires go extinct, but it saddens me that only way for that future to be realized was through a supernatural explanation. I had hoped that more tangible lessons for taking and redistributing power would be explored.
Overall, I am so glad to have read this graphic novel. It clearly was made with love and a passion to see the world improved by the removal of billionaire influence from our society. In the coming months, I plan to explore how revolutionary media can both act as a call to action as well as a pacifying force. I will certainly be excited to delve deeper into this piece of art during that discussion. Thank you Mr. Di Bartolo for this insanely polished work of art. F*ck billionaires!