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Phantacea Publications (James H. McPherson, Publisher), presents a PHANTACEA Mythos Print PublicationDouble-click for full, final cover, artwork by Verne Andru, 2012; alternate front cover artwork also by Verne Andru, 2012; Vetala figure on rollover cover by Ian Fry, ca. 1988; Soldier figure by John White (active ca. 1575-93); cover collage on rollover prepared by Jim McPherson, ca. 2004For more on the Soldier figure see: http://members.shaw.ca/jmcptimps/trapants1.htm#PictishAttisPHANTACEA: Anheroic Fantasy since 1977 |
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As in ArterialYep, Vetala's back in the pink again once her soldier falls from the sky and her monstrous (for a vulture) mount, Cloud General Kronar, brings her to him. She's determined to stay that way, too. She isn't the only goddess willing to playing a Trigregos Gambit. The artwork in this cell is entirely by Verne Andru, though the collage was prepared by Jim McPherson. The outer backgrounds for this page are fashioned of the same image. Top of Section - Upwards |
Mercy is a Capital OffenseThat line actually belongs to Nergal Vetala, the titular goddess in Add in the Lathakran Death Goddess, Methandra Thanatos, as well as the Byronic Moon Goddess, Umashakti Silverstar, and it's probably only a matter of a few hundred pages for him to go from Incarnate to Incarnadine — as in an ever-after-motionless bloody pulp. Jim McPherson put together both collages. The artwork, though, is entirely by Verne Andru. So is the double-click on the upper one, though Verne inked it as a preliminary step to preparing a full-colour, wraparound cover for a phantacea comic book series that never got published. (It was intended for an issue of the ill-fated Phantacea Phase One project of the mid-to-late 1980s, of which more here.) The double-click is a similar strip of artwork. I used it for an ad I put out in 2011. More on that ad and the artwork that went into it links from here. Top of Section - Upwards |
Annuling NihilaIf memory serves, Freespirit Nihila named herself during the course of Herta Heartthrob encountered someone very similar to Nihila during The artwork behind Verne's Nihila is by the extraordinary Mexican muralist Ferdinando Castro Pacheco (1918- ). I took the shots I used from pictures I took of a couple of his murals in the Merida Town Hall some years ago. Top of Section - Downwards
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2012 Ad for Goddess Gambit and the 1000-Daze E-booksTop of Section - Upwards |
Black & White version of a 2012 ad for Goddess GambitTop of Section - Upwards
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Colour version of a 2012 ad for Goddess GambitTop of Section - Upwards
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2012 Price List for Phantacea PublicationsTop of Section - Downwards
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Dustmound"Vetala's middle finger salute to the Sedon Sphere" The throne atop Dustmound was also seen in Top of Section - Upwards |
Vetala's SoldierSo who is he? In Gambit, the impression is he's Cosmicaptain Dmetri Diomad, the Double-D of the so-called Alphabet Cosmicompanions. I suspect he blasted off that way. However, mind's are fragile, especially if Nergal Vetala, the Vampire Queen of the Dead gets hold of you. She starts out calling him her 'soldier'. Thereafter he becomes he becomes her champion: the Trigregos Titan. As for whether he was actually possessed by Thrygragos Lazareme. Well, if there's ever a Gambit sequel, we might learn the truth of that then. Aspects of artwork came from the cover of pH-5, by Bateson over Andrusiek; here and of course the Verne Andru's long awaited cover. Top of Section - Upwards |
The Hidden Continent of Sedon's Head
(Double-click to enlarge map to its 1978-standard black on white format.)A clickable version of the map is on the Peculiar Placespage whereas the more than just moderately amazing story of what I spotted in Cairo's Egyptian Museum is retold here and here. Top of Section - Upwards |
Daemonic Royalty (Daemonicus & Primeval Lilith)
The figure representing Primeval Lilith, the Demon Queen of the Night, is by Henry Fuseli (1741-1825). I used it on Hellion's cover as well as on the mock-up I prepared for 1000-Daze, two versions of which can be seen here. Fuseli called her Great Night so how could I not choose her to stand in for one of phantacea's most misunderstood stand-outs? Below Lunatic Lily (who's still a mass murderer no matter how justifiable her actions could be considered), the Smiling Fiend, or someone similar, seems to be in one of his two-eyed Daemonicus moments. I took it from a postcard I bought in Germany back in 2008 whereas the background is from a postcard I bought in Sintra, Portugal, on that same 6-week European vacation. Other than in a flashback sequence (an earlier version of which is still online here), Demon Queen Lilith does not appear in Gambit. Demon King Daemonicus-Smiler is, however, an entirely different matter. A link re both of them is here. , they are noted in Hellion's Character Companion.) Top of Section - Downwards |
The Sedonic Eye-MouthThe mighty eye-mouth in the sky above Sedon's Head is depicted about to slurp up the Cosmic Express. The artwork is by Ian Bateson, circa 1986. The original appeared on the cover to phantacea Phase One #1, of which more is here and here. As per here, a slightly different version of the Sedonic Eye-Mouth appeared on the back cover of The flip-side of this postcard is here. As already noted, aspects of Fangers could constitute a prequel to the 'Launch 1980' story cycle. Top of Section - Upwards
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Goddess Gambit
Sample chapters from the 2004 rewrite of the web-serial are here. It's unlikely they'll make it as is to 2011's Gambit but they'll be close. Although for Vetala's Soldier the titular Goddess is, of course, Nergal Vetala, three other devic goddesses play a Trigregos Gambit in the novel. They are dot, dot and, um, well, sort of ... Top of Section - Upwards
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Devils in Disguise
The 'Devils in Disguise' collage belongs here in the sense that Gambit carries on from where an aspect of Fangers leaves off. A few details re the shots that went into this collage are here. As for why the incomparable Harmony is wearing a shroud, well, um, let's call it symbolic for the moment. Or, now that Gambit is available for ordering online, with or without credit cards, perhaps it wasn't a shroud at all. Was, in pHantacea-phact, more of a chrysalis, albeit with nothing anywhere near as pretty emerging. Top of Section - Upwards
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2011 pHant Ad
The five novels thus far released by Phantacea Publications. The text reads:
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Goddess Gambit's Original CoverBefore there could be any collages, there had to be an original. Rather, put better, there had to a final, print-ready image. Artwork by Verne Andru, 2012; full wraparound cover for Goddess Gambit is here Top of Section - Upwards
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Wraparound Cover for pH-6And of course before there was a Goddess Gambit, there was The Trigregos Gambit. But before even that, though, there was pH-6. Interestingly, the emphasis on this cover is Bad Rhad, as he was recalled howsover inaccurately in "Feeling Theocidal", the cover of which Verne also did. The double-click is the full wraparound cover for pH-6, which came out in, um, 1980. I had to fuse them together on Photoshop so the meshing's sadly imperfect. Artwork by Verne Andrusiek, 1980 Top of Section - Upwards
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The background image for this panel is a variation of the collage/cover I prepared for "Janna Fangfingers" ; the background images for this page are as per here |
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