Now boarding all soon-to-be-berries! Please be sure to spread out throughout the train - it’ll be tight enough without all of you juicy fellows cramming into one car…

Hmm… Oh, drat… I seem to be in this car! Hey, I didn’t think I was getting berried too! Oh drat… Well, when in Rome…

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This is probably the most drastic formatting change I’ve had to make with a comic, but it was very much necessary to include all these fun (and often fatty) characters!

This is a continuation of the Already Baring Chaos Gum commission I did for  Midaras, as part of  Creature_Unknown’s Juicy July prompt list, and I believe this prompt was “27: Influence on Others.”

And here we also have the first appearance of  Creature_Unknown, as a tribute to the fantastic artist and berry fanatic he was. Who better to be driving a train of berrified blimps than the creator of Juicy July himself?

I wanted to give a huge thank you to  Midaras, first of all, for being such a wonderful client and friend over the years, but also for two other reasons…

This piece was a wonderful experiment and challenge to meet, with all sorts of concepts and techniques needing to be utilized to make it work. I pushed Procreate’s canvas size and layer number to the limit with these last few pages, and it was a blast working on a piece so jam-packed with characters!

I also wanted to thank him for selecting me for such an important and personal piece of art involving  Creature_Unknown. Seeing as it’s his birthday, I feel like now was a good time to share this commissioned homage to his work. These last few parts in particular are heavily inspired by his huge YCH-auction pieces, which involved impressive amounts of characters getting into all sorts of expansion related hijinks.

It was an honor to be commissioned by  Midaras for such a personal piece, and I hope you all enjoy this berry bonanza as much as I did drawing it!

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Featuring included from left to right:
 Dubnium5500  Cynical_Gage  lobster  Krooki  Kind_Bunny_20Mx  AbbyInflatableTabby  CharTheZard  Renoko  BigFatFoxs  Joshi_Teh_Charizard  Tagmer  Fedora-wearing-Fox  KeyTheTyphlosion  Bawleon Dreen  matlock99
 Midaras
 Kalas  DustDragon  fluffywaffle  Booknut (That guy looks awfully familiar…)  zoo_keeper_00  lxlhunter  Quakestir  Furryboi576 ArchivesOfHispanicZuoh SnivyContrarian SilverFox61

And, as the conductor of the train (and Juicy July): Creature_Unknown

The background poster assets are made by Creature_Unknown, included as a tribute Easter egg.