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13 Sunday Jul 2025

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Dear Janolytes,

I sit here now chilling on my day off, my soul filled with a Starbucks Caramel Ribbon Crunch, led lights cascading my face,  pothos hanging above me, and Doechii playing via Spotify.

Waddup yo.

I’m off from Cottonfield 12 trying to catch up on things, like cleaning, organizing and this website. At some point I need to restart looking for a job, hopefully all the witchcraft I’d been doing will pay off.

Sick of these niggas. So sick.

This issue is honestly really fucking simple. Real simple. No elaborate plots, crafting plans, trying to find a nice backdrop to paint my creative visions on.

Simple right.

Ready? Here we go.

Its Spring 2021 and a nigga is feeling somewhat social. As social as I can be giving where i was working at the time. Fuck Cottonfield 6.5.  In case you are wondering how I went from 6.5 to 12 I’ll explain.

So if I went back to a cotton field it gets a .5. Returning here wasn’t exactly what I wanted but niggas needed a job Fall 2020. Especially since I wasn’t getting those wonderful COVID checks from Cottonfield 10, and the funds I had was on the verge of being fully evaporated.

Desperation will make you do strange things. If I won’t shy I would sell drugs or sell meat pictures.

Anyway I decided to visit 1 of my homeboys, and it was a simple visit. Nothing major at all. We caught up as we watched TV and he played video games. At some point it hit me he had a vast and impressive wardrobe. We know what came out of my mouth next…

Do you want to model for me nigga?

He said yea and BAM new photo journey unlocked. The plan was try to do it before Summer or when it got hot as fuck.

FULL FIELD NIGGA HEAT HOT.

At some point I scouted an area in downtown Charlotte and what I thought would be a simple adventure ended up taking a year later.

But Jano why?

Do you remember some issues in 2021 how I was having car issues.  Yea that is the conflict in this arc. From late March until early October 2021 transportation was an issue for me.  With that any shoot idea got halted, postponed or didn’t happen. At some point I left Cotton field 6.5 to Cotton field 11 simply because despite how much Bezos is benefiting from us ordering online My hours and pay were trash, and wasn’t covering my car repairs which weren’t solving the issue of my car stalling.

Ugh.

No it was a fucking arc bro. I barely saw my niggas, hoping in Lyfts to and from the field in early covid years, or I had to share a car with my ex. All of it was horrendous. By the time I car got fixed it was fall and I decided to revisit the idea come Spring 2022 since Cottonfields 11 busy time was Halloween, then the egregious fall and winter descended on us like locust in the Bible.

Side Note I’m listing to Charles Hamilton now now. Spotify can we just get this niggas WHOLE Discography on your platform, forever.

Back to the program.

Spring 2022 arrived and I hit up my homeboy. I’m not sure what was in the air of Spring 2022 but spring was busy. Between plotting photo shoots, working on my comic, doing vendor opportunities and other things happening.

He said he was still down for the cause, we picked a date and BAM light skin magic happened.

I picked him up, confirmed the outfit selection we had already chose, and headed to downtown one Spring Sunday Morning. I can honestly say this is one funniest shoots I’ve done.

Despite how much he verbalized in a comical manner how much he was tired of walking he also delivered in poses. Towards the end I played a song I remembered him vibing out to from our hangout sessions from years ago.

I think it was Never gonna give you up by Rick Astley. I think. I knew then, obviously not now.  But the authentic joy he showed was photo worthy. And with that we wrapped up, dropped him off, and  I went to prepare for the slave week ahead.

Moral of the story. Kick it with your niggas just for the simple joy of kicking it with your niggas. If something comes along that helps your passion, its a bonus. But def spend time with your friends when you can. You never know when you get the feeling to google a friend, only to discover that they passed away 2 years ago and you haven’t seen them in years.

Wait what?

Yea…..

 

Hey Google Play

Rina Samayama -Bad Friend

Anyway to see images from this fun filled light skin day click here.

Also

I finally made my Team Jano shirts. Finally.

Go Buy. 

I’m about to do Yoga and dive into a video game coma. I’m pretty sure I should beat Final Fantasy 7. Its been about 8 years since I started.

I know I know.

*Says this and plays Batman Arkham Knight instead.

New Book Series: Azure Ascendance Level 6

03 Thursday Apr 2025

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Dear Janolytes,
I sit here infused by chocolate, drinking my water, letting my new tattoo dry, and listening to Jennie’s Cd. I never listened to Black Pink before but the few singles that Spotify showed me since she had others with artist I actually listen to led me to her. Right now I’m 3 tracks in. I can YEET to this.

Anyway.

Obviously by the title of this issue you know why I am here. After 2.5 years it is time for issue 6 and the beginning of Act 2 of this story. Yep, the story i started back in the unemployment saga of 2016-early 2017 continues.

And true to Jano JRPG style it wasn’t simple. Levels 1 through 5 were done with no problem during my unemployment arc. I wrote Act 2 at some point and I had worked briefly late April 2017 until late May 2017 at cotton field 7 and 8.But since the cotton fields I were at didn’t require me to wake up BEFORE THE FUCKING SUN AND DID NOT INVOLVE PHYSICAL EXERTION, shit was good. I got laid off for a few weeks went back to work mid June to mid July 2017 at Cotton field 8. I had a Jano’s alive party, got back online and was unemployed roughly 9 weeks. I started working on Act 2 because if you have time to work on your craft without a slave schedule that what you do.

DUH!

I started at cotton field 9 early September 2017, and omg nigga my Knees. FUCK NIGGA MY KNEES. FUCK LADDERS!!! ON KAMI BRO!! And I had to be at work at 5 am.

I was so Weak in the knees like SWV, but not in the way they meant it.

I wish that was a typo, I really do. But that was the arc I was in.

Despite that I did my best to do my work.By Thanksgiving 2017 I had act 2 drawn and inked. I eventually started the coloring portion, which would be a task in itself since ya know ladders and a whack sleep schedule.

Spoiler Alert.

I got to Page 6 and then my house got broken into January 2018……yeah.
Depression, PTSD, and Anxierty are strong when it is the 2nd time. I hope those niggas die in a fire and life has made them suffer.

*Deep sigh*

Obviously niggas can’t color without a cpu so I ended up scripting Act 3 and 4 when i went back to cotton 8. Also working on Emerald Evisceration when I got my laptop back. At some point cotton field 9 let me go because of dumb white man fuckery, and eventually Cotton field 8 ended. So for 4 months I just worked on Act 3 and 4, chilled with friends, played video games, and took nature walks.

Simple Times Bro.

Eventually I had all of my story drawn, inked and scanned in. When this occurred in September 2018, i said I’m gonna relax.

And so I did.

The last week of Septemeber 2018 I went back to at Cotton Field 9 for 2 weeks, then eventually being at Cotton field 10.

Look I know there is alot of Cotton field hoping within a year and some months. I know. That’s a whole separate conversation and you can email me if you want to talked to me about it.

Anyway, once January 2019 hit I resolved to restart my book since super slave season was now over.

Simple right.

ABSOLUTELY NOT. Cotton field 10 was me having to be at work at 6 am in a warehouse FILLED WITH FUCKERY. Holy fuck nigga the fuckery.
Side note I’ll be so glad to be done with this warehouse arc that started with Cotton field 10.

Despite my best intention I didn’t finish this issue until July 2019 due to fatigue and other things.

UGH.
Once I finished I released issue 2. I had this whole plan to finish an issue and release an issue. Which was good in theory, but life said

OH NIGGA YOU GOT PLANS? AIGHT BRO. Watch this.

I had the FULLEST PLAN to be done with this series in 2020, but that was certainly NOT the case.

Needless to say none of that happened and here we are me releasing Issue 6 years later. Everyone’s journey is different.

Side note, the aforementioned Jennie CD was really good. it legit just finished.

Anyway Azure Ascendance Level 6 is here and the synopsis goes as follows.
Following the tragic results with the fight with Hannya all parties head their separate ways to grief and process the events that led to their new reality. New characters are introduced as this new act unfolds to a new wave of chaos that surpasses the bedlam Hannya previously spearheaded.

I introduce a slew of new characters and give continue to give the characters a plot of their own as this story goes on. Its only 14 issues remaking after this so enjoy it while it last. Even if I wasn’t working these raggedy ass jobs I don’t know If i would continue it. Making a comic and DOING EVERYTHING IS ALOT NIGGA!!! I won’t say its not possible to continue but I will say right now at this current position I am in life its unlikely. There is a goal to get it animated tho.

At any rate its link time.
For a preview of level 6 take this pill.
To buy the issue after said preview take this pill.
If you have no idea wtf is happening and want to read the issues prior to this point take this pill.
And that’s all folks enjoy this tale that I gave my all to like Mariah Carey.
I need to pass out since I have still wake up before the FUCKING SUN and a cotton field that is more unorganized the past 11.

UGH.

On a positive note I beat Spider Man Morales since we last spoke. Yay.
I need to finish Final Fantasy 7, yes the same Final Fantasy 7 i was playing in 2018.
Don’t judge me

New Book Series: Azure Ascendance Level 3

08 Monday Nov 2021

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Dear Friends of Jano,

Here we are. You and I gazing into an abyss of the internet as I post a new page in my Bizarre Art Journey.

Nigga What???

I don’t know, i didn’t really have an actual opening plan so I just started spouting words.

As if.

Tonight we have a special occasion. I am releasing a new issue of comic series.

YEEEEEEET.

Small confession, I have literally been done with Issues 1-5 since Summer 2017.

But Jano why haven’t you been releasing them at a faster rate?

Legitly there is no real reason. Although I am glad I didn’t because just recently a friend went through the aforementioned issues and pointed out my grammatical errors. So much gringe. This is what happens when you work bullshit slave jobs after graduating, your sense of grammar and proper sentence structure dies.

So just in case you ever wondered why these issues have so many run on sentences and what not that is why.

As I was saying I don’t have an exact reason why I haven’t been releasing them, I don’t. Part of me wanted to have the whole series done, another part wanted to have a certain gap between issues. Now I literally have a ten issue gap seeing that i just finished coloring issue 13. As of right now I have only seven issues left with a total of 319 pages.

Spoiler Alert, this is only going to be a 20 issue series. If you wanted a new Naruto, DBZ, Sailormoon, Bleach or One piece this def isn’t it.

But i’m legit looking forward to finally coloring the next 7 issues, especially considering I did issues 11-20 in the summer of 2018.

Yea…So in case you haven’t figured it out coloring has been a journey. I blame cotton field fatigue for it all. What I hoped to finish in 4 years from the fall of 2016 has not manifested.

Issues 1-5 were done by spring 2017, issue 6 June 2019, Issue 7-10 summer 2020 (thanks lockdown), Issues 11-13 Fall 2020-Fall 2021.

Ugh. So much fucking ugh.

But since I actually have my book in a local bookstore and I just did the QC  Zine fest, where people actually expressed interest in my book. I may actually try to release these in a faster rate. Maybe 1 every 2 months? Maybe, no promises. Hopefully I’ll be done with this JRPG saga before the releases catch up.

*does math…2025, that is if i drop an issue every 2 months from this point on. On kami if i’m not done with this saga by then I’m trash, legit trash.

Hey Google, play Charles Hamilton Loser.

Side note, if you are wondering what the final villain is gonna look like. Head towards my boutique and look at the current tshirt and prints I have for sale.

Super Final Battle JRPG Vibes bro.

With all that out of the way I present Level 3 of my comic book series Azure Ascendance.

*starts narrator voice

A battle royal begins. Coco, Boumei, Raiken, Coral and Kuchihige battle fiercely as Princess Yosei is still passed out from her recent ordeal. Meanwhile Watatsumi finds out the true identity of her masked savior. Truths are revealed as a battle rages on in another part of Azure while a new foe waits to ravage bodies indiscriminately.

*ends narrator voice

The intensity continues to build in this story my ancestors told me to write in a medium I was fond of growing up. At usual I have a preview page so that you can view. 

And as usual you can find this issue on my publications page along with the back issues.  I have the full witches intent to put an issue out every 2 months, especially since now this little hermit has people who are interested in this saga I’ve created. I need to do another show to keep this momentum growing.

As Namie Amuro…This is for all my fans.

Maaaan if I get people cosplaying my characters and get this animated I will yeet so hard I may cum.

Huh what.