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New Book Series: Azure Ascendance Level 7

18 Wednesday Jun 2025

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Dear Janolytes,

Shout to sleep because niggas be tired as fuck until they actual get quality sleep for more than 2 hours. I’m ready to escape the trenches of cotton field 12.

I am, absolutely.

Last night I woke up refreshed watched Expanse and Sailor moon. Worked on another project (details coming soon).  Had an existential flashback about the last decade.Played Batman Arkham Knight.

Yes, the game that released a decade ago. Am I late? Absolutely. My toxic trait is that when I was working on my comic book I barely enjoyed anything else thinking I should have been working on my book.

No, I’m serious.  I have a whole back log to beat before I even think about purchasing a PS5…and a Nintendo Switch. That has been a debatable purchase as well.

Anyway.

Its time for the debut of Level 7 of Azure Ascendance. New to y’all, def not to me.

I started the coloring process in um July 2019 while still in the trenches of cotton field 10. That time frame was alot between concerts, super slave period and me having to drive back and forth to rock hill.

UGH.

Then came March 2020 and Covid. The disease that had us all fucked up.

ABSOLUTELY.

To the point where places shut down, niggas were shook if they heard someone cough, and the fatalities rose on a daily basis. Cotton field 10 told us that they weren’t going to hold it against us if we didn’t show up……

 

….so i stopped. As a nigga who was already allergic to the job (literally i wore a mask before it was in fashion. Which barely negated the effects), wasn’t getting paid enough for the  daily fuckery, and did not want to work 12 hour shifts you god damn right I left.

Fuck all that other shit.

Peace had knocked on my door and I answered, as well as chance to work on my art like it was 2016. I colored all night, watched TV during the day (JoJo’s Bizarre adventure, Samurai Champloo, Fire Force, Community, High Fidelity, The Mandalorian and a few other things that I can not remember at the moment), Played Spider Man and hacked PSP.

AWICH WAS IN ROTATION!!!! BLESS HER!!!

Shout out to COVID for helping me escape the desolate land.  Sucks that raggedy  cotton field 10 wouldn’t let me have NONE of those unemployment checks.

Raggedy Bitches.

But I was free and def took advantage of the 6 months of me not working.

The 1st week of this 6 month rest period is when I finished Issue 7, which was literally the last 5 pages.

SMH at how long it took me to work on this issue.

Anyway synopsis time because that is important.

The tension between Sapphire and the other Faunroids become beyond palpable as they act on their machinations to use Ikari as a bargaining chip to take to the Kera Clan. Meanwhile CoCo has to come to peace with horrible truth regarding her parents relationship with her brother. As Boumei watches that family won’t stop betrayal. Azure’s short lived peace is coming to an end as new waves of conflict slowly begin to swallow everyone again.

Yep a new battle is arsing slowly. I continued the trend of choosing violence for act 2.

As usual there is a preview page, and of course here is  where you can find the issue for purchase.

Thats it for now Janolytes. Happy Juneteenth.

Fuck that Slavery shit nigga.

Fashion and Fros

09 Friday May 2025

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Dear Janolytes,

Come on and gather around the the campfire as the sage Buuuuuuurns as I type this. It’s adventure time come on and tell a friend. The JRPG adventure of Jano Ryusaru resumes again after 3 years.

Fun times.

It was either I start typing this issue, re watch the movie Dope, play video games or try to get my printer working after 3 years of inactivity. The last one seems like too much right now, I may fall asleep while watching the movie,  video games and this tied.  But I had been thinking about this while i was picking cotton today.

So here we are, Yay.

Tonight we are going to rewind to spring 2022, which honesty was the beginning of the an existential year. Idk how else to explain it.

Realistically I’m not, i gave some inkling of it in my last issue. but that is all ya’ll will get from me.

This sage is really billowing bro.

Anyway this shoot occurred in April 2022, but it really originated in summer 2018.

Yep, one of those.

This idea wasn’t even complicated honestly, but the enemy doesn’t want me to succeed. That or I’m just supposed to be patient as fuck. I can’t tell.

Anyway flashback time.

It was the unemployed summer of 2k18. I spent it working on Act 3 and 4 of my comic series, playing Final Fantasy 7, watching streaming services, and just trying to kick it with my niggas. Simple times.

At some point i was doom scrolling and saw a girl with an afro, fashioned the fuck up, in a city scape.

MESSAGE.

At some point I thought i wanna do something similar. I hit up my home girl I met from Cottonfield 5.

Jano, is that the 1 that shut down and spoiled you with the joy of working on art things freely which enjoying life away from a slave pit?

Absolutely.

She was absolutely down with the idea. Ideally i wanted to do it before fall arrived. At some point during the last few years I realized that there is a hue shift between seasons. I can’t explain it no better than that.  What follows next was me trying to do this between spring and fall for the next few years. 2k19 was a mix of various factors, but mostly Cottofield 10 working me like a slave. 2020, well there was a super virus killing people along social injustice for existing while black. 2021 was the rancid year when my car was not working properly for 6 months, in addition her father passed away, and a complicated schedule.

At some point I told myself I will move on from asking her and did. I sat with  the idea and wondered who be the person to make my faro dreams come true.

Side note, the sage I had mentioned earlier. Well I had to pause writing this because at some point my smoke detector went off and had to put the sage outside. The whole stick was enveloped in smoke and smoked me out.  A nigga had demons.

Or had a peak of fuckery that needed expulsion from my domain.

Prob the latter.

Anyway back to the flashback.

One day in February 2022 my now ex invited me to go out with her and the other slaves who were still bound by what I called Cottonfield 10. Sure whatever. I sat there listening to them tell me of the current events of that wastelands fuckery.

Can’t relate bro.

At some point an idea to ask 1 of my old slave mates would they want to help me with this project. Back in the early days of Cottonfield 10 when masta had me printing, she would come in on 2nd shift and was assigned the pod I was working at. Our interactions were real brief but she was koolio. I asked and she said yea.

Heavy Yeet bro.

I told her I would email her with the details and the time frame that I wanted to do this. I scouted my saved images from IG from 2k18,re found the email I initially sent my friend I mentioned earlier, made some changes and told her the time frame I aimed to do this which was April. She was down and there was no problems.

See this is actually a really fucking simple story it just took 4 years because of life.

The day before I re scouted the area since it had been a while. Some buildings were closed off or had transformed to a different store. We confirmed everything about the next day and Bam the day of……

 

…..I overslept.  Yep. First time ever the day of me shooting someone. I wasn’t late per say, I had just woke up later than planned and had to rush to get ready.

My toxic trait is I like to be on time for something especially if I planned it. Idk, that is just me. Alot of people have crackhead energy and are disrespectful of people’s time.  We got there in a reasonable window but it was still bothersome for me. My home girl had brought her sister, and my ex wanted to come.  Despite me being late I didn’t forget how i wanted to this to go.

My toxic trait is that I image train for shoots so that I’m prepared how i want it to go.

The only thing I wasn’t really prepared for was the amount of white people and flip flops I fucking heard on that Spring Saturday Afternoon.

NIGGA!!!

A full horde of  unseasoned Caucasians just flopping about.  Do what y’all do but stay out of my way and don’t’ be racist.

MESSAGE!!

 

The only thing that happened that I wasn’t expecting was this NPC flew off his scooter and BUSTED his ass. I thought that shit was hilarious, but I’m fucked up inside.Besides that it. I paid for her parking and we split ways.  I met up with my home girl later on and we caught up.

Annnnnnd that’s all folks. As I said this was actually a really simple idea but life wouldn’t let it happen in the time frame I wanted. Shout out to Cottonfield 10, you had some useful elements after all because that place was fuckery.

Anyway my home girl has a hair oil product  page. I can fully ATTEST that using it will make your curls POP and FLOW like pussy juice when sendai finally notices you.

I”ve seen it in the mirror.

Anyway to see how  this went in visual format, click this link thingy.

At any rate I need to head to Cotton field 12. FUUUUUUUUUUCK.

I’m over this place, waking up at 3ish am and the fuckery I’m driving to.  I need to do a prosperity spell for better fields to work in and for my art to flourish. Simple things.

 

 

 

The 2.5 year leap and Season 3 preview

19 Wednesday Feb 2025

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Dear Janolytes,

*deep breath*

Hey.

This is kinda odd.

But Jano Why?

Because I haven’t posted anything in damn near 3 years. Yea 2022 was a time, an existential evoking time. FUCK.

So much to the point where I logged off like Kriz Kaliko.There is peace in not knowing wtf is going on with anyone. It is. The only thing I checked was Twitter for Hilarity and tumblR was random interest. In retrospect I needed it, but as a result I’ve lost my voice. Now I’m hesitant to stick my foot in the ocean. I think this will be the issue when I walk on the shore before I jump in.
*rubs face while saying shit.
Honestly at some point I had drafted a whole different issue, but re reading it I’m not in that head space any more and alot has happened since when I initially wrote it.
So where do I start.

Well the concept of death and time will choke you while it strokes you with no lube. Spoiler Alert.
I tried to enjoy time with my friends and family because of the above sentence. I went on alot of Side quests, some of which I got pictures of. I ran into people i never thought I’d see again. Met a whole new cast. I finally got my chest tattooed, and my nose pierced. I had a bearded dragon who was the sweetest scaley bum, but he passed away in a horrific bloody death. Cotton field 11 ended like my spider sense projected, now I’m at cotton field 12 where I contemplate how did I get here and when will I leave since I’m not getting shutting down vibes. (Fuck this job) I threw my first art show. I finished my comic book.

Right!!! Finally!!!

Got some shoots done that were a challenge creatively, but turned out amazingly. Still have some that i want to do. Went to my 1st rave while seeking new raves. Tried some new hair styles. Made a choice to believe in myself as much as i do these groups that somehow lead to a dead end as I have many existential episodes . Realized that their should be a study of how niggas transform into duplicitous nigga niggas (Shit is fucking wild). So many concerts. So many (See list below)

Tyler the Creator, Kali Uchis, Halsey, Snoh Aalegra, H.E.R, Ravyn Lanae, Rina Samayama, Masego, Ella Mai, Nova Twins, Janet Jackson, Paramore, Gym class heroes, Issiah Rashad, Childish Gambino, Rapsody, Jhene Aiko, Gary Clark Jr.

Decided to pursue my creative therapy dreams in my own way. Started doing Yoga. Played Disc Golf. Went to Blerd con. Started a new Art project. Tried Mushrooms. Trying to keep my plants alive while learning and recycling soil from those didn’t make it. Learned how much I can disassociate. Learned that I don’t have it in me to argue with people, bruh I promise I have no fucks but I have gum like CoCo from Dear white people. Learned that when you feel the vibes shift an arc is about to end. You can leave willingly or life will force you out that will evoke emotions that I’m not a fan of.

Please don’t piss me off,I legally can’t murder you so it doesn’t serve me.

“I don’t speak on it anymore, I just Meditate.” ~ Rapsody

Learned if you don’t slow the fuck down, life will take a sledge hammer to your knees. Learned Hedonism is a must in this rancid world because that life path perfection isn’t real so celebrate the wins you can get. Learned everyone’s journey is different, however saying that doesn’t pacify you when you feel like you haven’t gone anywhere compared to others.

None of this is in chronological order by the way.

*stops in the sand and glances in the ocean.

So yeah that is where I’ve been, roughly. At this point in my life I just want balance. Balance between my art projects, friends and family, video games, reading.  College level simplicity and fun. If i can avoid crashing out while on my path to being an Art idol that would be great. I just want a certain level of whelm in my life,no over whelming is desired.

Do I really want to get back online? Its a mix.
As I said there is peace in being offline, absolute peace. But also I have to promote myself as an artist, plus I really miss talking shit. OMFG. Its hard.

So hard.
But here we are. Me standing at the edge of the ocean self reflecting over the past few years and wondering where am I going on this JRPG.

*deep breath and steps back into the water.

So what does that mean for this website? I use to try to adhere to a monthly schedule…..but fuck all that.
Now it will be whenever I feel like it. Realistically it’ll probably be every other month.
But Jano why?
Simple, despite me being gone for the past 3 years I don’t have alot of issues ready to publish. It’s been more of the same people say they want to do something, I say ok koolio, and what follows is crickets. My spider sense is pretty accurate when I feel that nothing will happen. And at this point I don’t have it in me head to chase anyone down, less than I did in previous years. People know what they want, or have whole lives that take priority over working with me. I made peace with that. Long gone are the days of me counting on someone’s money, I’ll count it when it actually hits my account.

Jano that is kinda bleek.

It is what it is bro. I made peace with alot of things. My toxic trait is that I’m not letting these niggas stress me out and I will water my spiritual garden.

“I’m on my give grace, get peace, zen shit” ~ Kota the Friend.

Side note, I’m not giving grace. Niggas can go suffer. Thats where I am at emotionally.

Remember also I have a whole comic series that I just finished.
YEET.
YEP AZURE ASCENDANCE IS FINALLY FUCKING DONE NIGGAS!!!! HOLY FUCK. The day I colored that last page a year ago I clapped like I never clapped, SCREMT like I never SCREMT. Draxus looked so concerned.
Nigga did you say SCREMT?
Yes nigga SCREMT!!!!
But there are 15 issues left of my 20 issue series, so between that and my photoshoots I may end up posting more issues than I initially said. I haven’t’ figured it out yet.
Eh.

Back to doing shows and trying to get my books in stores since the 1’s that existed have unfortunately shut down. You realize what you are capable of when you have time to reflect about your life. Bitch I am a whole Feature, you should appreciate your good fortune if I even acknowledge you.

“I AM THE HYPE”  ~ Team Four star Vegeta

The stark contrast is that you don’t even exist to me.

“You’re dead to me.” ~ Kali Uchis
” You don’t even exist to me!” ~ Nancy from the Craft
“Bitch, I cut my granny off if she don’t see it how I see it” ~ Kendrick Lamar

Any of the these quote falls would suffice to summarize the above statement.

Moral of the story, I lost my mind and with that I had to  find myself.

Mostly.

Or something like that.

Success will look different for me compared to everyone else, but I won’t know if I don’t leave this island I’ve been on for the past few years.

So while I continue dive walk back to the ocean here is a preview of what I did in seclusion.

“Let me talk my shit, oh, I’m on fire” ~ Flo Mili

Damn I’m typed more than I planned.

Eh, As if.

Anyway here is a preview of whats to come.Have fun JanoLytes.

 

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.

Jano’s Bizarre Boutique

29 Friday Oct 2021

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Dear Friends of Jano,

First off, let us talk about something. I legit have never feared for a group of Anime Protagonist the way I do for the Straw Hat pirates as the assassination attempt on Big Mom has failed MISERABLY.

Holy fucking fuck.

Not even Team Toguro had me this shook. The next 50 episodes will be interesting…as fuck.

Anyway. How goes it? Was your October as exhausting as mine?  When I was at UNCG I had periods in my semesters were it was just periods of Academic rape for at least a month.

On Kami October 2021 felt like an retro 2000 academic rape session.

OMG Jano, did you just say Academic Rape? You’re canceled.

Eh, ok. Spoiler Alert, I coined that phrase between 2002-2009. I just haven’t had a reason to say since graduating it in 2009….until now.

At any rate, if September was emotionally exhausting then October was just fucking taxing in the sense of having too much to fucking do. It has been the culmination of events I started back in March of this year.

Er before all the car dilemmas that plagued my spirit and my wallet.

Let me explain.

At some point in Jeff Bezo’s slave pit I thought maybe I should heed the psychics advice in December of starting my own business. It has something that has teetered in my head for random parts of the last decade, but i never fully pursued it. But when a psychic who is speaking with your ancestors tells you that you will be successful at something you have been too timid to do, you say fuck it and fuck it raw with  big black mega meat. BOOM BOOM.

I met with my non profit boss and thus the laying of a foundation began. We discussed products, vendors, and all that other businessy stuff. Transitioning my brain from coloring to mathematical shit is a transition, especially all your jobs have been basic slave nigga shit. A week later while at an art show, i drafted up some designs for keychains and pins. The goal was to keep it as simple as possible since i’m literally still working on a comic series. I had to figure out I was going to make said keychains and pins, yeet to the gawdz for youtube.

YEET.

Shortly after I found out from a friend where I could get stickers made. And a friend who I made via my girlfriend helped me get some shirts. At this point I think we are in May when I wasn’t driving my car because the stalling and starting was taking its toll and was a safety issue.

Spoiler Alert, the creation of these products probably was as complicated as my mermaid and candy queen shoots. As the late great DMX Said “I wish it was a lie, but everything I said meant it.”

June came and I finally was able to get some of the supplies I need, but of course there were complications. Complications in the sense of ink cartridges  disappearing and reappearing (no really, like really fucking really), and buying the fucking wrong type of shrink paper. Fun. Things hit a halt until July when I had money to spare to buy the things I need. But didn’t really get going again til September a few weeks later after starting this new cottonfield after coming back from New York City.

*deep breath*

Ya’ll, I’m tired just from explaining all this.

I bought my stickers, had to do trial and error with the shrink paper, and various other supplies i needed. I finally got the tshirt press machine from a friend I use to pick cotton with, the goal was to get the machine in the spring but her and I were both having issues in our life. Even making the shirts were a problem.

YO I PROMISE ALL THESE RETROGRADES CHOSE VIOLENCE AGAINST ME, MY SPIRIT AND MY PEACE!!!!  THE ENEMY DID NOT WANT ME TO SUCCEED!!  ON KAMI!!!!

I just heard a church organ play in my head. SMH.

But here i am with all my products ready finally. I told my non profit college friend boss that I wanted to have my store up and running either before the art show I had last week, or the QC city zine fest I will be this saturday. I didn’t have it up last week, but now it is finally up and running.

Oh, yea I had an art show last Saturday. I was going to make a whole other issue regarding it and the pieces I make for said shows, but since you are here now. I have a gallery for you to check out. Go ahead and take a look then come back when you are done.

Did you check it out? You did and you came back? Yeet.

Even though my store wasn’t ready, i did take some merchandise to be sold in the forms of prints and stickers.

YA’LL PEOPLE ACTUALLY BOUGHT MY SHIT!!!!

It all happened so fast, literally. Within 20 mins of each other I made four sales. I was so floored.

Am I one step closer to becoming a pretty art idol like i want? EXTOL ME MEAT SACK HOES!!!

Excuse me my Vegeta level Narcissism was flaring up again. Pardon me humans.

But in short my store is finally up, and at the moment i don’t think I need to buy anything else…right now. Side note, I got my table banner for art shows. I looked at it and I feel like a One Piece pirate.

Def part of the Worst Generation.

Anyway. Without any more delays or awkward side rants I present to you

Jano’s Bizarre Boutique.

I plan on adding more items as time goes on, but right now this is my starting point. And as I have told you I still want to finish my comic series, so please be patient.  I’ll make announcements as usual if I had anything new. I’m still navigating through this business owner space. As I navigate remember to sign up for updates on my site.

Also if you reside in Charlotte, like zines, comics and other printed materials. Come to the Queen City Zine Fest to check out me selling copies of my comic series.

Real shit, if you were to tell me my awkward shy ass I would be doing shows, with colored hair, looking kooler than usual to promote my book to get an idol fanbase I wouldn’t have believed you.

But here we are.

YEET.