Dear Janolytes,

Welcome to 2026, where all of a sudden everyone is nostalgic about a decade ago…even though everyone was so anti 2016 by the time the year ran its course.

But nostalgia hits for whatever reason.  There were parts of the year I liked…me starting my art journey, being unemployed and working on projects at night while listening to Spotify. I may have hated the year but most of the artist I discovered that year are still on repeat.  I discovered the TMNT IDW comic (GOATED) Playing video games without feelings of guilty that I had to be working on something, Dragon Age Inquisition, was my Jam, seeing my friends (RIP to some), I discovered the Durarara series, being unemployed and sleeeeeeeeeping..

OMG I miss sleeping without a care in the world. Take me back to November as Tyler said (not specifically November, if you heard the song you would get it). My toxic trait is I want to be paid to exist and work on my projects. That’s it. That’s the goal. I Know I’ve made it in my art journey if people start donating to my projects.

Like what you saw and give it up for a turtle, or whatever Michaelangelo said In TMNT Secret of the Ooze.

Nigga what?

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That year is also when I started my comic series….which was the beginning of an ARC of character design, writing, hex code design, and a myriad of other things for 8 years.  And with that we segue into this months issue.

Do I get points for a creative segue? Yes? No? Maybe?

As if.

9 years later after initially drawing it. I finally drop Issue 9.  Heavy Yeet. During the lockdown of arc of everybody’s life I colored it late April, early may of 2020. Fun time. Minus how some pages I had to literally redrew because I did REPREHENSIBLE AND HORRID job of drawing in summer 2017.  HORRIBLE AS FUCK BRO!!!

*insert cringe here.

Anyway it wasn’t the whole issue…just certain panels.

This is what happens when you want to hurry to get to a certain part of the story. In hindsight if I had moved as fast as I wanted (which was impossible in retrospect) I would have regretted it.

Fully.

Anyway time for plot of issue 9, fuck all this talking right.

Ikari awakes to find herself captured in the palace of the Posei Kingdom, but that doesn’t mean that she has given up. Thoughts of murder and revenge permeate the air around her as she seeks her parents killer. Her rage won’t be hindered by her prison but at what cost? 

Spoiler Alert, this issue hurt …..

As usual for a preview of this issue click here.  And if you like what you see there is this link right here.

In other random news, I finished My Hero Academia. I’m slowly watching the things that were released within the last dew months. Next it is Gachiakuta (Kei Urana  art is legit awesome ), TMNT Tales of the TMNT, One punch Man Season 3 and i think I”m forgetting something. I finally watched K Pop Demon hunters. I yeeted at all of it. I won a Nintendo Swtich at the accursed Cottonfield 12….which I feel like I will never escape. Take me back to a decade ago when I was unemployed as fuck….not getting stretched out by Big Brown Cardboard and a healthy sleep pattern. My  funds were non existent but it was peaceful.

Anyway some of my projects are winding down. I just need to find time to work on them…while working on new one’s.  This wouldn’t be so bad if I weren’t exhausted, but ya know whatever.