The Runaway Guys Colozineum

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“A Celebration of a Grand Crossover: Inspired by Our Inspirations”
TRG Colozineum was created in 2023 by fans of the greater TRG community, many of which also being members of Jon's art community. It went on sale for preorders exclusively during TRG Colosseum 2023 (plus the Monday after). Preorders extended until Sunday morning the next week due to Jon not closing the preorder window sooner (perhaps by design), but those who purchased the digital version in some way got to view it immediately upon purchase. The entire book is dedicated to all the memories created by the TRG channel and the friends immediately surrounding it. Due to its nature of being a fanzine for the TRG community at large, it takes a more general approach in presenting TRG members and their friends.

Within Jonaverse lore, immediately following the success of Black Hole Chaos, much of the same team that brought you that fanzine decided on a whim to do another fanzine dedicated to TRG as a whole to be sold during TRG Colo in the coming year. With no need to have lore writings, the call for artists was much bigger, at a cap of 40 (35 page artists and 5 merch artists).

Work for the previous Fanzine created too much traffic in the Art and Multimedia Wings in a way that made it hard for others who weren't in the Zine team to work there. They were not allowed to rent the space again for courtesy reasons, lest they incur the wrath of Bear and the W.I.N.G.S. for staying any longer. As the TRG CAB was already renting an office space close to the BVA premises, they decided to move shop and share the office with them (which helped because some of the same team was also working on that simultaneously…as much as a double-edged sword that is). After this change, said office building was partially disguised from the outside as a run-down, abandoned pizza parlor--a welcome-yet-particular change from the very noticeable bosom the TRG CAB had used prior to top the building.

They needed to adhere to strict deadlines, as TRG Colo the next year was expected to be in the first half of the year at least. Artists effectively had two and a half months to finish in time for the Colosseum at the beginning of March (the organizers were among the first to know the final date). Nonetheless, they provided in spades with tons of amazing artwork! This didn’t go without any shitposting, however, as the back cover was yet another meme! Ominous photos of Lord Dona’tor and the Lamp are on the back cover this time around, and Tim himself provided a heartfelt letter for the fans and members who purchased the full zine bundle.

Featured TRG Members, Friends, Pets, and Alt-Jons
In order of appearance within the book itself: Alts Featured on Page 7 (in clockwise order): Rosajon, Jonriel, PonPon, BufftonJon, Ham-Ham Jon
 * ProtonJon
 * Chuggaconroy
 * NintendoCapriSun
 * Tom Fawkes
 * AttackingTucans
 * Lucahjin
 * Masae Anela
 * Adriana Figueroa
 * FireLordBrooke
 * Josh Jepson
 * Sab Irene
 * Insaneintherain
 * Chatia
 * The 8-Bit Drummer
 * Stephen Georg
 * MalMakes
 * FamilyJules
 * ToxicxEternity
 * MotionDan
 * Kampy_DK
 * Jyggy11
 * SuperMCGamer
 * Bagel
 * Mipha
 * Tiny Eddie
 * Ladybug
 * The Lamp
 * Lord Dona'tor
 * Kepler
 * Bizzard the Wizard

Contributors
Twitter handles are given below, if available.

Other

 * Stephen Georg (origin of back cover - lamp)
 * MalMakes (origin of back cover - Lord Dona'tor)

Trivia

 * The announcement and artist call for this zine occured only a few days after the final wrapping of the Black Hole Chaos (Jonaverse) fanzine. The strict timing of deadlines was necessary for it to be sold during TRG Colosseum 2023, but was a shock to everyone regardless.
 * There had to be a revision made to the digital version of the zine, as some credits were inconsistent with the corresponding page number. This fix was swiftly done during TRG Colo 2023; the download link for the digital version was updated with the corrections and the errors were corrected before the physical version of the zine made it to print.
 * A few people who worked on the zine were also working on the animated bumper for the upcoming event.