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Phantacea Publications in Print

- 'Phantacea Phase Two' 2016-2018 - The 'Launch 1980' story cycle - 'The Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories' Fantasy Trilogy - The '1000 Days' Mini-Novels - The phantacea Graphic Novels -

Phantacea Phase Two 2016-2018

Decimation Damnation

E-cover for Decimation Damnation, cover collage prepared by Jim McPherson, 2016

Published in 2016; main webpage is here; ordering lynx are here;

Hidden Headgames

Front cover for Hidden Headgames, collage prepared by Jim McPherson, 2017

Published in 2017; main webpage is here; ordering lynx are here;

Daemonic Desperation

Promo collage entitled Daemonic Desperation

Tentative cover for Dem-Des; will probably be changed before it's published; scheduled to be released in 2018;

Phantacea Phase Two physically began with 2016's "Decimation Damnation", the first mini-novel extracted from the as yet open-ended saga of 'Wilderwitch's Babies'. It was set between the 9th of Tantalar and the 1st of Yamana, 5980 Year of the Dome. However, its follow-up, "Hidden Headgames" was set between the 30th of Maruta and the 14th of Tantalar in that same year. "Daemonic Desperation" picks up Babes near the end of the second week of Yamana and continues through the Summer Solstice of 5981. As the last known member of the Damnation Brigade, if the Witch was fortunate to survive Dec-Dam, alive and pregnant, she may not be so lucky come the end of Dem-Des. Oddly enough, her unborn babies may yet still be both viable and unborn by then.
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The 'Launch 1980' Story Cycle

The War of the Apocalyptics

Front cover of War Pox, artwork by Ian Bateson, 2009

Published in 2009; main webpage is here; ordering lynx are here;

Nuclear Dragons

Nuclear Dragons front cover, artwork by Ian Bateson, 2013

Published in 2013; main webpage is here; ordering lynx are here;

Helios on the Moon

Front cover for Helios on the Moon, artwork by Ricardo Sandoval, 2014

Published in 2014; main webpage is here; ordering lynx are here;

The 'Launch 1980' story cycle comprises three complete, multi-character mosaic novels, "The War of the Apocalyptics", "Nuclear Dragons" and "Helios on the Moon", as well as parts of two others, "Janna Fangfingers" and "Goddess Gambit". Together they represent creator/writer Jim McPherson's now concluded project to novelize the Phantacea comic book series.

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'The Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories' Epic Fantasy

Feeling Theocidal

Front Cover for Feel Theo, artwork by Verne Andru, 2008

Published in 2008; main webpage is here; ordering lynx are here

The 1000 Days of Disbelief

Front cover of The Thousand Days of Disbelief, collage prepared by Jim McPherson, 2010

Published as three mini-novels, 2010/11; main webpage is here

Goddess Gambit

Front cover for Goddess Gambit by Verne Andru, 2012

Published in 2012; main webpage is here; ordering lynx are here

Circa the Year of Dome 2000, Anvil the Artificer, a then otherwise unnamed, highborn Lazaremist later called Tvasitar Smithmonger, dedicated the first three devic talismans, or power foci, that he forged out of molten Brainrock to the Trigregos Sisters.

The long lost, possibly even dead, simultaneous mothers of devakind hated their offspring for abandoning them on the far-off planetary Utopia of New Weir. Not surprisingly, their fearsome talismans could be used to kill Master Devas (devils).

For most of twenty-five hundred years, they belonged to the recurring deviant, Chrysaor Attis, time after time proven a devaslayer. On Thrygragon, Mithramas Day 4376 YD, he turned them over to his Great God of a half-father, Thrygragos Varuna Mithras, to use against his two brothers, Unmoving Byron and Little Star Lazareme, in hopes of usurping their adherents and claiming them as his own.

Hundreds of years later, these selfsame thrice-cursed Godly Glories helped turn the devil-worshippers of Sedon's Head against their seemingly immortal, if not necessarily undying gods. Now, five hundred years after the 1000 Days of Disbelief, they've been relocated.

The highest born, surviving devic goddesses want them for themselves; want to thereby become incarnations of the Trigregos Sisters on the Hidden Continent. An Outer Earthling, one who has literally fallen out of the sky after the launching of the Cosmic Express, gets to them first ...

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The '1000 Days' Mini-Novels

The Death's Head Hellion

- Sedonplay -

Front cover for The Death's Head Hellion, collage prepared by Jim McPherson, 2010

Published in 2010; main web presence is here; Character Companion starts here; ordering lynx are here;

Contagion Collectors

- Sedon Plague -

Front cover for Contagion Collectors, collage prepared by Jim McPherson, 2010

Published in 2010; main web presence is here; Character Companion starts here; ordering lynx are here;

Janna Fangfingers

- Sedon Purge -

Front cover for Janna Fangfingers, collage prepared by Jim McPherson, 2011

Published in 2011; two storylines recounted side-by-side, the titular one narrated by the Legendarian in 5980, the other indirectly leading into the 'Launch 1980' story cycle; main web presence is here; Character Companion starts here; ordering lynx are here;

In the Year of the Dome 4825, Morgan Abyss, the Melusine Master of the Utopian Weirdom of Cabalarkon, seizes control of Primeval Lilith, the ageless, seemingly unkillable Demon Queen of the Night. The eldritch earthborn is the real half-mother of the invariably mortal Sed-sons but, once she has hold of her, aka Lethal Lily, Master Morgan proceeds to trap the Moloch Sedon Himself.

In the midst of the bitter, century-long expansion of the Lathakran Empire, the Hidden Headworld's three tribes of devil-gods are forced to unite in an effort to release their All-Father. Unfortunately for them, they're initially unaware Master Morg, the Death's Head Hellion herself, has also got hold of the Trigregos Talismans, devic power foci that can actually kill devils, and Sedon's thought-father Cabalarkon, the Undying Utopian she'll happily slay if they dare attack her Weirdom.

Utopians from Weir have never given up seeking to wipe devils off not just the face of the Inner Earth, but off the planet itself. Their techno and biomages, under the direction of the Weirdom of Cabalarkon's extremely long-lived High Illuminary, Quoits Tethys, have determined there is only one sure way to do that -- namely, to infect the devils' Inner Earth worshippers with fatal plagues brought in from the Outer Earth.

Come All-Death Day there are more Dead Things Walking than Living Beings Talking. Believe it or not, that's the good news.

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phantacea Graphic Novels

Forever and Forty Days

- The Genesis of Phantacea -

Front cover of Forever and Forty Days; artwork by Ian Fry and Ian Bateson, ca 1990

Published in 1990; main webpage is here; ordering lynx are here

 

The Damnation Brigade

- Phantacea Revisited 1 -

Front cover of The Damnation Brigade, artwork by Ian Bateson, retouching by Chris Chuckry 2012

Published in 2013; main webpage is here; ordering lynx are here

Cataclysm Catalyst

- Phantacea Revisited 2 -

Front cover for Cataclysm Catalyst, artwork by Verne Andru, 2013

Published in 2014, main webpage is here; ordering lynx are here

Kadmon Heliopolis had one life. It ended in October 1968. The Male Entity has had many lives. In his fifth, he and his female counterpart, often known as Miracle Memory, engendered more so than created the Moloch Sedon. They believe him to be the Devil Incarnate. They've been attempting to kill him ever since. Too bad it's invariably he, Heliosophos (Helios called Sophos the Wise), who gets killed instead.

On the then still Whole Earth circa the Year 4000 BCE, one of their descendants, Xuthros Hor, the tenth patriarch of Golden Age Humanity, puts into action a thought-foolproof, albeit mass murderous, plan to succeed where the Dual Entities have always failed. He unleashes the Genesea. The Devil takes a bath.

Fifty-nine hundred and eighty years later, New Century Enterprises launches the Cosmic Express from Centauri Island. It never reaches Outer Space; not all of it anyhow. As a stunning consequence of its apparent destruction, ten extraordinary supranormals are reunited, bodies, souls and minds, after a quarter century in what they've come to consider Limbo. They name themselves the Damnation Brigade. And so it appears they are -- if perhaps not so much damned as doomed.

At least one person survives the launching of the Cosmic Express. He literally falls out of the sky -- on the Hidden Continent of Sedon's Head. An old lady saves him. Except this old lady lives in a golden pagoda, rides vultures and has a third eye. She also doesn't stay old long. He becomes her willing soldier, acquires the three Sacred Objects and goes on a rampage, against his own people, those that live.

Meanwhile, Centauri Island, the launch site of the Cosmic Express, comes under attack from Hell's Horsemen. Only it's not horses they ride. It's Atomic Firedrakes!

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Multi-character Books and Mini-Novels

Front Cover for "Feeling Theocidal", a PHANTACEA Mythos Print Publication, Artwork by Verne Andru, 2008

Phantacea Publications

Sun-Moon logo, prepared by Jim McPherson 2014

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Comics and Graphic Novels

[Cover of 'pH4-Ever & 40']

In print and digital e-books and PDFs

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Introductory Remarks

www.phantacea.com may be the only website dedicated entirely to print publications featuring Jim McPherson's PHANTACEA Mythos. However, at least at present, it's hardly Jim McPherson's only website.LIst of Phantacea Publications available for ordering by credit card, prepared by Jim McPherson, 2011Novels to Comics PDF over the Kitty Clysm TOC, prepared by Jim McPherson, 2014

The first, pH-Webworld, aka both PHANTACEA on the Web and the Phantacea Mythos Online, began in 1996 and continues to this day, albeit as www.phantacea.info. The second, Jim McPherson's Travels, didn't get its own URL until 2007. Nonetheless, until that day came, it was an integral part of pH-Webworld. Indeed, many of the graphics found on this page are collages largely composed of shots taken during the course of said-Travels.

By Autumn 2011, Phantacea Publications had issued two multi-character, full-length novels and three mini-novels featuring Jim McPherson's Phantacea Mythos. An e-version of "Feeling Theocidal" is also available, albeit only in amazon.com's Kindle platform. All are available for ordering online by credit card.

In the long-standing Phantacea tradition of Anheroic Fantasy (of which more here), all are also mosaic novels in the sense that they feature a good-sized, ensemble cast of characters, many of whom appear in .

The mini-novels are entitled "The Death's Head Hellion", "Contagion Collectors" and "Janna Fangfingers". They have been carefully extracted from "The 1000 Days of Disbelief", Book Two of 'The Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories' trilogy. Like their full-length predecessors, "Feeling Theocidal" and "The War of the Apocalyptics", the three, deliberately low-priced mini-novels are set in large measure on the Hidden Continent of Sedon's Head.

Their casts include, at the top of the food chain, Thrygragos Everyman and his firstborn Unities (the incomparable Harmony, Lightning Lord Order and Uncle Abe Chaos) in their freewheeling prime. The mini-novels also contain book-specific character companions that are at least partially illustrated, howsoever anheroically, starting here.

A growing selection of lynx to out-takes from all three parts of 1000-Daze can be found here. Excerpts from "Goddess Gambit", the conclusion to 'The Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories' trilogy – and the next instalment of Launch 1980 story cycle that began with War-Pox – link from here.

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Long-serving Banner Ads for Phantacea Publications

| "Helios on the Moon" Buzz | "Cataclysm Catalyst" Buzz | "Nuclear Dragons" Buzz | "The Damnation Brigade" Buzz | | "The Damnation Brigade" announcement | "Goddess Gambit" announcement | "The Thousand Days of Disbelief" announcement | Support phantacea | Order Today | Bulk of Page Contents |

From Comics to Web-Serial to Full-length Novel one last time

Character artwork by Richard Sandoval, 1978

Jim McPherson's long term project concludes with another multi-character, action-packed Phantacea Mythos mosaic novel

"Helios on the Moon"

Climactic entry in the 'Launch 1980' story cycle

Full cover for Helios on the Moon, with spine, artiwork by Ricardo Sandoval, 2014

Main webpage is here

Covers artwork by Ricardo Sandoval, 2014

 

Heads will roll

Front covers for print and digital versions of Helios on the Moon, artwork by Ricardo Sandoval, 2014

And not just on the Moon; all three 'Launch 1980' Phantacea Mythos storylines collide and culminate yet again, irrefutably this time; also contains a surprise addendum to "Goddess Gambit", the concluding book in 'The Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories' fantasy epic

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From Comics to Novels

Rollover with 2014 convention price list

Phantacea Revisited graphic novels morph into full length Phantacea Mythos mosaic novels; only the beginnings, middles and endings have changed to protect what really happened

Cataclysm Catalyst

The second Phantacea Revisited Graphic Novel

Full cover for Cataclysm Catalyst, artwork by Verne Andru, 1980-2013

Dedicated webpage is here

Full cover by Verne Andru, 1980-2013

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Internal Artwork Credits

Rollover with Catalyst's artwork credits

Artwork from pH 1-7 as well as Phantacea Phase One #1; samples link from here;

Images in this row double-click here and here; notes on panel background are here

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Phantacea Seven

- Comic Book to Web-Serial -

Unpublished Phase One cover by Ian Bateson, circa 1988

Ian Bateson's unpublished artwork from Phantacea Seven provides the basis for the first full-length phantacea Mythos Mosaic Novel since "Goddess Gambit".

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Look out Below!

Full covers for Nuclear Dragons, art by Ian Bateson, 2013; text by Jim McPherson

Nuclear Dragons are here

- A phantacea Mythos Mosaic Novel -

The second entry in the 'Launch 1980' story cycle is now available for ordering online

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Dedicated webpage is here; back cover text can be found here and here; lynx to excerpts from the book start here and here; check out material that didn't make it here and related excerpts from its scheduled follow-up, 2014's "Helios on the Moon", here; its Auctorial Preamble is reprinted here, here and here

Centauri Island

- Web-Serial to Novel -

Mockup for Nuclear Dragons cover adapted from cover originally intended for Phantacea Seven comic book, artwork by Ian Bateson circa 1980

At long last, the second entry in the Launch 1980 epic fantasy has arrived.

Ian Bateson's breathtaking wraparound cover for the novel utilizes his own dragons from pH-7. Those from the unfinished cover for the Phantacea Phase One project can be seen here and here.

 

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Phantacea Revised #1

B/w first and last pages from DB graphic novel

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Guess what isn't coming soon any more?

Front and back covers for D-Brig graphic novel, artwork by Ian Bateson, 2012; facial touch-up by Chris Chuckry

As for how to order "Phantacea Revisited #1: The Damnation Brigade", that will be coming soon to this very spot

The Damnation Brigade Graphic Novel

artwork by Ian Bateson and Vince Marchesano

Artwork never seen before in print; almost all of pH-5 available for the first time since 1980

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Goddess Gambit

Samples of Verne Andru's art, applicable to Goddess Gambit

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Phantacea Publications is pleased to announce "Goddess Gambit", the third and final book in 'The Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories' trilogy, is available for ordering both online and directly from the publisher

(Please note: Phantacea Publications can only accept cheques and money orders.)

"Janna Fangfingers - Sedon's Purge", can now be ordered as both a trade paperback and as the 4th Phantacea e-book.

With its publication, "The 1000 Days of Disbelief", Book Two of 'The Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories', concludes and, in some respects, the 'Launch 1980' story cycle begins.

Hit here for nearly instant ordering gratification

The Mighty Eye-Mouth in the Sky

Sedonic Eye, image by Ian Bateson, 1986; text and manipulation by Jim McPherson, 2011 by Jim

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Covers prepared by Jim McPherson, 20104 covers for 1000 DazeThe Thousand Days of Disbelief

Phantacea Publications is pleased to announce the three mini-novels constituting "The 1000 Days of Disbelief", Book Two of 'The Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories', are available for ordering online by credit card.

Just as happily, "The Death's Head Hellion" and "Contagion Collectors" are available everywhere at $10.00 each. Being longer than its predecessors, "Janna Fangfingers" still goes for the highly reasonable price of $12.00 CAD and USD.

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Upcoming Graphic Novel

Covers being prepared for future publications

From black and white to full colour, the Damnation Brigade Graphic Novel is due out in late 2012.

Original artwork by Ian Bateson circa 1986. Colour by Ian Bateson, 2012, with additional work by Chris Chuckry, 2012.

"Feeling Theocidal -- Thrygragon, Year of the Dome 4376" (Book One of 'The Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories' trilogy), "The War of the Apocalyptics" (the first full-length entry in the Launch 1980 story cycle), the three mini-novels making up "The 1000 Days of Disbelief" (Book Two of 'The Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories'), "Goddess Gambit" (Book Three of the trilogy and in some respects the second – unless it's the third – entry in the Launch 1980 story sequence) and "Nuclear Dragons" (the second, full-length entry in the Launch 1980 story sequence) should be available at neighbourhood bookstores and public libraries all over the world.

"Janna Fangfingers", the third and final mini-novel comprising 1000-Daze, rather cleverly doubles as a prequel to both Gambit and the Launch 1980 story cycle. In its turn, Endgame-Gambit picks up from where War-Pox leaves off. Part Three of "Nuclear Dragons" connects to both War-Pox and Gambit. Parts One, Two and Four of Nuke also nicely sets up "Helios on the Moon", the last scheduled sequence in the Launch 1980 story cycle.

E-versions of Feel Theo, Hellion, Contagion,Fangers, War-Pox and Gambit are available on the Kindle format exclusively from amazon.com, amazon.co.uk and some of amazon's other European and Asian affiliates.

Kindle e-books can be downloaded for I-Pads and I-Phones as well as a number of other devices. Many have text-to-voice capacity for the visually challenged.

Phantacea Publications e-books are also available in a variety of other formats. Please check your favourite online bookstore to download Phantacea Publications e-books to the device of your choice.

If you don't see the novels or mini-novels displayed at your local book stops, kindly direct purchasing agents and/or booksellers to www.phantacea.com in order to help them rectify such a sad situation.

Preparatory artwork for future projects

Incomplete covers for future publications

Possible cover for full-length e-book compiling "The Death's Head Hellion", "Contagion Collectors" and "Janna Fangfingers". Re-worked collage mostly featuring his own shots by Jim McPherson, 2012.

Rollover is a black and white version of a possible cover for "Nuclear Dragons", the second entry in the 'Launch 1980' story cycle. Artwork by Ian Bateson circa 1980.

 

 
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Cover for War Pox, art by Ian Bateson, 2008Variations of Cover for Feel Theo, artwork by Verne Andru

Hit here to initiate orders directly from amazon.com and some its affiliates. Books from Phantacea Publications currently available include "Forever & 40 Days — The Genesis of PHANTACEA", "Feeling Theocidal", "The War of the Apocalyptics" the three mini-novels constituting "The 1000 Days of Disbelief" (namely "The Death's Head Hellion", "Contagion Collectors" and "Janna Fangfingers"), "Goddess Gambit" and "Nuclear Dragons".

Kindle versions of "Feeling Theocidal", "The Death's Head Hellion", "Contagion Collectors", "Janna Fangfingers", "The War of the Apocalyptics" and "Goddess Gambit" can be ordered exclusively from amazon.com, amazon.co.uk and four of amazon's European affiliates. Check your favourite online sites to order Phantacea Publications e-books in a variety of other formats.

Libraries, bookstores and bookseller collectives can place bulk orders through Ingram Books, Ingram International, Coutts Information (and Library) Services, Baker & Taylor, and a large network of other distributors worldwide.

Some of the Phantacea comics and graphic novels can be ordered through Drive Thru Comics.

Or, if you prefer to order directly from the publisher, email or send your order(s) via surface mail. No matter where you live or what currency you prefer to use, I'll figure out a way to fill your order(s) myself.

Please add an additional 12% to cover Canadian and provincial taxes as well as Canada Post rates for shipping. At present Phantacea Publications can only accept certified cheques or money orders.

BookFinder.com lists both of the original versions of the mosaic novels: "Feeling Theocidal" and "The War of the Apocalyptics". Also listed therein are most of the other PHANTACEA Mythos print publications.

Another interesting option for the curious is Chegg, which has a rent-a-book program. Thus far its search engine shows no results for phantacea (any style or permutation thereof) but it does recognize Jim McPherson (a variety of them) and the titles of the novels.

As for the Whole Earth (other than the Hidden Continent of Sedon's Head, at least as far as I can say), this page contains a list of a few other websites where you can probably order the novels in a variety of currencies and with credit cards.

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The Original Six + a Few Afters

Anheroic Fantasy Illustrated

Fabulous Phantacea Covers

| 1977 (pH-1) | 1978 (pH-2) | 1978 (pH-3 - Front) | 1978 (pH-3 - Back) | 1979 (pH-4) | 1980 (pH-5) | 1980 (pH-6) | 1980 Unfinished (pH-7) | 1986/7 (pHz1-1) | 1990 (pH-4Ever) | 2012/3 (pH-Rv1) | 2013/4 (pH-Rv2) |

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Phantacea One

pH1 cover by Dave Sim, 1977

Artwork by Dave Sim, 1977

Original web-presence preserved here

Note: Most of Dave Sim's Launching of the Cosmic Express sequence reappeared in "Phantacea Revisited: The Damnation Brigade" (Rv1:DB). Four pages also appeared in "Phantacea Revisited 2: Cataclysm Catalyst" (Rv2:CC).

The Launch sequence was included as a bonus chapter in the Phantacea Mythos mosaic novel "Goddess Gambit". The complete sequence features in "Nuclear Dragons".

Phantacea Two

pH2 cover by Gordon Parker, 1978

Artwork by Gordon Parker, 1978

Original web-presence preserved here

Note: A couple of pages of Gordon Parker's depiction of the encounter between Rom Kinesis (pre Doc Defiance) and Devil Wind were reprinted in "Phantacea Revisited: The Damnation Brigade" (Rv1:DB). That entire sequence was novelized in "Nuclear Dragons".

Sean Newton's impressive opening installment of the Soldier's Saga reappears in "Phantacea Revisited 2: Cataclysm Catalyst" (Rv2:CC). The Uncle Universe sequence is retold in the Phantacea Mythos mosaic novel "Helios on the Moon".

Phantacea Three Obverse

pH3 front cover, artwork by Richard Sandoval, 1978

Artwork by Richard Sandoval, 1978

Original web-presence preserved here

Note: None of the Helios on the Moon sequences in this issue were reproduced in either "Phantacea Revisited: The Damnation Brigade" (Rv1:DB) or in "Phantacea Revisited 2: Cataclysm Catalyst" (Rv2:CC) due to the pHantacea-pHact it's a different storyline.

It is, however, retold in the Phantacea Mythos mosaic novel "Helios on the Moon". Its cover was also done by (nowadays) Ricardo Sandoval, albeit in 2014

Phantacea Three Verso

Back cover for pH3 by Ian Bateson, 1978

Artwork by Ian Bateson, 1978

Original web-presence preserved here

Note: Reproductions of virtually all of the sequences drawn by Verne Andrusiek, Carl Muecke and Ian Bateson for the flip side of this issue appear in "Phantacea Revisited: The Damnation Brigade" (Rv1:DB).

Exceptions are pages that have been digitally re-lettered by Jim McPherson.

Phantacea Four

pH4 front cover, artwork by Ian Bateson, 1979

Artwork by Ian Bateson, 1979

Original web-presence preserved here

Note: Only reproductions of the Byronic Nucleus sequences drawn by Ian Bateson appear in "Phantacea Revisited: The Damnation Brigade" (Rv1:DB).

Tim Hammell's map of Sedon's Head from pH-3 reappears after the Bateson sequence in the graphic novel. A couple of Verne Andrusiek's pages from this issue also appear in context. Like parts of the map page, Jim McPherson digitally re-lettered aspects of these pages for purposes of clarity.

Phantacea Five

pH5 cover by Ian Bateson over Verne Andrusiek's inks, 1979/80, 19

Inks largely by Verne Andrusiek, 1979/80; Cover coloured, typeset and partially redrawn by Ian Bateson, 1980

Original web-presence preserved here

Note: Reproductions of virtually all the sequences drawn by Ian Bateson, Vince Marchesano, various Day Brothers & unaccredited friends, Tim Hammell and George Freeman (with Verne Andrusiek) appear in "Phantacea Revisited: The Damnation Brigade" (Rv1:DB).

Phantacea Six

pH6 cover by Verne Andrusiek, 1980

Artwork by Verne Andrusiek, 1980

Original web-presence preserved here

Note: Verne Andrusiek drew this entire 32-page issue. It concludes the Soldier's Saga begun in pH-2 by Sean Newton and carried on in issues #4 & #5 by Verne Andrusiek.

Most of the material prepared for the Soldier's Saga reappear in "Phantacea Revisited 2: Cataclysm Catalyst" (Rv2:CC). This time, though, Jim McPherson has painstakingly corrected myriad typos as well as added some judicious updates digitally.

Phantacea Seven (unfinished)

Unfinished cover for pH7, artwork by Ian Bateson ca 1980

Artwork by Ian Bateson, 1980

Original web-presence preserved here

Note: This issue was supposed to conclude both the Launching of Cosmic Express and the Helios on the Moon story cycles. Unfortunately producing it proved a logistical nightmare and it was abandoned.

Only Ian Bateson's Hell's Horsemen sequence was drawn and lettered. Those pages as they were initially submitted can be seen here. The same pages, digitally re-lettered by Jim McPherson in 2014, have finally seen print in "Phantacea Revisited 2: Cataclysm Catalyst" (Rv2:CC).

Phantacea Phase One #1

Phase One cover by Ian Bateson, 1986

Artwork by Ian Bateson, 1987

Original web-presence preserved here

Note: Some the material Ian Bateson redid over Dave Sim's original appears in "Phantacea Revisited 1: The Damnation Brigade" (Rv1:DB).

All of the Devil Wind v/s Demon Land material that Ian Bateson drew for pHz1 #2 also finally sees print in Rv1:DB.

For a sneak preview, go to here and here.

Forever & 40 Days

Front Cover of pH4-Ever, artwork by Ian Fry

Artwork by Ian Bateson over Ian Fry, circa 1989

The first graphic novel from Phantacea Publications came out in 1990.

Drawn entirely by Ian Fry, it was made up of backup sequences intended for the pHz1 project.

Artwork for the cover was finished by Ian Bateson over Ian Fry's original.

The pH-4Ever webpage is here.

Phantacea Revisited 1: The Damnation Brigade

Front cover for pHRev1, artwork by Ian Bateson, touch-up by Chris Chuckry, 2012

Artwork by Ian Bateson, 1987/2012

Collects the entire Damnation Brigade storyline from pH 1-5 (1977-1980), pHz1 #1 (1987) and pHz1 #2 (unpublished).

Earlier reproductions of Ian Bateson's until now unpublished artwork for the pHz1 project can be found here and here.

The graphic novel's webpage is here.

Chris Chuckry did some facial touch-up work on the Untouchable Diver, the Elemental Twins, Gloriel and the Witch

Phantacea Revisited 2: Cataclysm Catalyst

Front of flyer for Cataclysm Catalyst, art by Verne Andru, 2013

Artwork by Verne Andru, 1982-87/2013

Corrects and collects the entire Soldier's Saga from pH 2-6; starts with the Launching of the Cosmic Express as drawn by Dave Sim, 1977; continues with Phantacea's origin of the Devil Sedon as drawn by Ian Fry, ca 1986/7; and concludes with Ian Bateson's 6-page, Hell's Horsemen sequence intended for Phantacea Seven, 1980, as digitally re-lettered by Jim McPherson, 2014.

The graphic novel's webpage is here.

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Anheroic Fantasy Novels, Graphic Novels, Mini-Novels and Collections

Phantacea Publications

- Since 1977 -

- Forever & 40 Days - Feeling Theocidal - The War of the Apocalyptics - The Death's Head Hellion - Contagion Collectors - Janna Fangfingers - Goddess Gambit - The Damnation Brigade - Nuclear Dragons - Cataclysm Catalyst - Launch 1980 - Helios on the Moon - Decimation Damnation - Hidden Headgames

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Forever & 40 Days

1990 Graphic Novel

Front Cover of pH4-Ever, artwork by Ian Fry

Genesis of the PHANTACEA Mythos; dedicated webpage is here

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Feeling Theocidal

2008 Full Length Novel

Front Cover for "Feeling Theocidal", a PHANTACEA Mythos Print Publication, Artwork by Verne Andru, 2008

Book One in the Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories trilogy; also available in a variety of e-book formats; dedicated webpage is here

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The War of the Apocalyptics

2009 Full Length Novel

Front Cover for War of the Apocalyptics, artwork by Ian Bateson 2009

Opening entry in the Launch 1980 story cycle; also available in a variety of e-book formats; dedicated webpage is here

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The Death's Head Hellion

2010 Mini-Novel

Front cover for The Death's Head Hellion, collage prepared by Jim McPherson, 2010

Commences "The 1000 Days of Disbelief", Book Two in the Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories trilogy; also available in a variety of e-book formats; dedicated website is here

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Contagion Collectors

2010 Mini-Novel

Front cover for Contagion Collectors, collage prepared by Jim McPherson, 2010

Continues "The 1000 Days of Disbelief", Book Two in the Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories trilogy; also available in a variety of e-book formats; dedicated website is here

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Janna Fangfingers

2011 Mini-Novel

Front cover for Janna Fangfingers, collage prepared by Jim McPherson, 2011

Concludes "The 1000 Days of Disbelief", Book Two in the Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories trilogy; doubles as the prequel to the Launch 1980 story cycle; also available in a variety of e-book formats; dedicated website is here

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Goddess Gambit

2012 Full Length Novel

Front Cover for Goddess Gambit, artwork by Verne Andru, 2011/12

Book Three in the Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories trilogy; eventually meshes with the Launch 1980 story cycle; also available in a variety of e-book formats; dedicated webpage is here

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Phantacea Revisited 1: The Damnation Brigade

120 page Graphic Novel

Front cover for Damnation Brigade graphic novel, art by Ian Bateson, touch up by Chris Chuckry, 2012

Published in 2013; artwork from pH 1-5 (1977-1980), pHz1 #1 (1987) and pHz1 #2 (unpublished), of which more is here; dedicated webpage is here

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Nuclear Dragons

2013 Full Length Novel

Final front cover for Nuclear Dragons

The for sure second, full length entry in the Launch 1980 story cycle, cover art by Ian Bateson; recounts, in four parts, the actual launch of the Cosmic Express and the immediate ramifications of its apparent destruction particularly on its launch site, the Outer Earth's Centauri Island; dedicated webpage is here

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Phantacea Revisited 2: Cataclysm Catalyst

96 page Graphic Novel

Ad incorporating the front cover for the Cataclysm Catalyst graphic novel, art by Verne Andru, ad prepared by Jim McPherson, 2014

Published in 2014; artwork from pH 1-7 (1977-1980) and pHz1 #1 (1987), dedicated webpage is here

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Launch 1980

Promo for The War of the Apocalyptics entry in the Launch 1980 story cycle

Promo for the Nuclear Dragons entry in the Launch 1980 story cycle

Promo for the Helios on the Moon entry in the Launch 1980 story cycle

Trilogy completed in 2014; Phantacea Mythos story cycle novelizing the Phantacea comic book series

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Helios on the Moon

2014 Full Length Novel

Final front cover for Helios on the Moon

The climactic, full length entry in the Launch 1980 story cycle, cover art by Ricardo Sandoval; the Dual Entities have been back in their own timeline for a few years now; they're trying to change things for the better; how often does that work out; dedicated webpage is here

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Decimation Damnation

E-cover for Decimation Damnation, cover collage prepared by Jim McPherson, 2016

The start of the Phantacea Phase Two Revival; published in 2016; main webpage is here; ordering lynx are here;

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Hidden Headgames

Front cover for Hidden Headgames, collage prepared by Jim McPherson, 2017

Continuing the Phantacea Phase Two Revival; published in 2017; main webpage is here; ordering lynx are here;

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Daemonic Desperation

Promo collage entitled Daemonic Desperation

Tentative cover for Dem-Des; will probably be changed before it's published; scheduled to be released in 2018;

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| Final Full Cover for "Nuclear Dragons"| Earlier, 'publisher's mock-up' for "Nuclear Dragons" | Dragons Squared, plus B/W Forbearers | Can anything stop ... | Can anyone stop ... | "Helios on the Moon" variations |

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"Nuclear Dragons"

Ian Bateson's full cover for Nuclear Dragons, 2013

Final cover for "Nuclear Dragons", the latest full-length novel featuring Jim McPherson's Phantacea Mythos

Artwork on both the front and back covers is by Ian Bateson, 2013; Jim McPherson's back cover text can also be read here and here; lynx to excerpts from the novel are here

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The Second Entry in the 'Launch 1980' Story Cycle

Mockup for full cover of Nuclear Dragons, prepared by Jim McPherson, 2012

Most of the artwork on both the front and back covers is by Ian Bateson ca 1986/7. For more on the two head-like graphics at bottom of back cover, see here.

The latest full-length novel from Phantacea Publications is now available for ordering
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Nuck Drags Red Squared

Square shot used in reddish bg for panel

Prepared by Jim McPherson, 2013, using Ian Bateson's original, b/w artwork from circa 1979; used for the reddish backgrounds found in this panel and elsewhere on page

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Centauri Island

Unpublished Phase One cover by Ian Bateson, circa 1988

Cover artwork by Ian Bateson, mid-1980s; intended for the Phantacea Phase One project; unpublished except online, where it was used for the Centauri Island web serial; colour versions of the covers can be found here

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Nuck Drags Mock-Up

Mockup for Nuclear Dragons cover adapted from cover originally intended for Phantacea Seven comic book, artwork by Ian Bateson circa 1980

Cover artwork by Ian Bateson, mid-1980s; intended for the Phantacea Phase One project; unpublished except online, where it was used for the Centauri Island web serial; colour versions of the covers can be found here

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Nuck Drags Yellow Squared

Another square shot used for page background

Prepared by Jim McPherson, 2013, using Ian Bateson's final, full-cover artwork; used for the yellowish backgrounds found in this panel and elsewhere on page

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Can anything stop ...

Ad for Nuclear Dragons, Ian Bateson artwork 2013; text by Jim McPherson

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Can anyone stop ...

Collage prepared by Jim McPherson, 2013, using the front cover and some shots from the Phantacea comic books

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Coming Next ...

Helios on the Moon, artwork by Richard Sandoval, 1978; variation by Jim McPherson, 2013

"Helios on the Moon", the final entry in the 'Launch 1980' story cycle

Colour variation of Richard Sandoval's Helios on the Moon cover for Phantacea Three prepared by Jim McPherson for inclusion at the end of the "Nuclear Dragons" trade paperback

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Helios on the Moon, artwork by Richard Sandoval, 1978; variation by Jim McPherson, 2013

"Helios on the Moon", the final entry in the 'Launch 1980' story cycle

Colour variation of Richard Sandoval's 'Helios on the Moon' cover for Phantacea Three prepared by Jim McPherson for inclusion within the "Nuclear Dragons" trade paperback

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From Comic Books to Web-Serial

The Helios on the Moon sequences from pH-2, pH-3 and pH-4 have yet to be reprinted

However, the 'Helios on the Moon' web-serial is being expanded and should appear as a full-length novel sometime in 2014

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From Web-Serial to Novel

Gold-trimmed version of pH-3 cover, artwork by Richard Sandoval, 1978

Richard Sandoval's front cover for the Helios on the Moon upside of Phantacea Three

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"Goddess Gambit"

Full cover for Goddess Gambit, artwork by Verne Andru, 2012

Now available from Phantacea Publications
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Cover blow-ups and details are here

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As in Arterial

Verne Andru artwork in a collage prepared by Jim McPherson, 2012

Yep, 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.

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Mercy is a Capital Offense

Collage of Verne Andru artwork prepared by Jim McPherson, 2012

That line actually belongs to Nergal Vetala, the titular goddess in "Goddess Gambit". However, as Vetala's soldier, by now Trigregos Incarnate, looks about to discover, Freespirit Nihila isn't exactly a kind, considerate entity (more so than deity) either.

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.

Collage by Jim McPherson, images by Verne Andru, 2012

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.

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Annuling Nihila

Collage entitled Annuling Nihila, latest version prepared in 2012 by Jim McPherson

If memory serves, Freespirit Nihila named herself during the course of "The War of the Apocalyptics". As per here, attempting to 'annul' her in Gambit isn't just Vetala and her soldier's problem, though.

Herta Heartthrob encountered someone very similar to Nihila during "Contagion Collectors". Her appellation, rather than name, even began with an 'N' - Nemesis.

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.

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Black & White version of a 2012 ad for Goddess Gambit

B/w version of Gambit ad, prepared in 2012 by Jim McPherson

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Colour version of a 2012 ad for Goddess Gambit

Colour ad prepared by Jim McPherson, 2012

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2012 Price List for Phantacea Publications

Price list prepared by JIm McPherson, 2012

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Haunted Dustmound

Haunted Dustmound, based on artwork by Verne Andru 2012

"Vetala's middle finger salute to the Sedon Sphere"

The throne atop Dustmound was also seen in "Contagion Collectors". As for how it got from the Hoodoo Hamlet of 5476 YD to the Hadd of 5980, well, it is made out of Brainrock-Gypsium after all.

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Vetala's Soldier

Collage made of images representative of The Trigregos Titan, prepared by Jim McPherson, 2012

So 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.

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The Hidden Continent of Sedon's Head

inverted map of Sedon's Head, prepared by Jim McPherson and Tim Hammell in 1978

(Double-click to enlarge map to its 1978-standard black on white format.)

A clickable version of the map is on the Peculiar Places page whereas the more than just moderately amazing story of what I spotted in Cairo's Egyptian Museum is retold here and here.

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Daemonic Royalty (Daemonicus & Primeval Lilith)

Lilith and Daemonicus, prepared by Jim McPherson, 2010

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.)

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The Sedonic Eye-Mouth

Sedonic Eye Card, art by Ian Bateson, 1986; text and manipulation by Jim McPherson, 2011

The 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 War of the Apocalyptics".

The flip-side of this postcard is here. As already noted, aspects of Fangers could constitute a prequel to the 'Launch 1980' story cycle.

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Goddess Gambit

Alternative cover for Goddess Gambit, prepared by Jim McPherson, 2004; Vetala image is by Ian Fry, ca. 1988

"Goddess Gambit" began life as "The Trigregos Gambit", of which much more is here, here, here and here.

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 ...

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Devils in Disguise

Devils in Disguise collage prepared by Jim McPherson, 2011

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.

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2011 pHant Ad

Back of Sedonic Eye Postcard, prepared by Jim McPherson, 2011

The five novels thus far released by Phantacea Publications.

The text reads:

The gods and goddesses, the demons and monsters, of ancient mythologies have been trivialized, their worship proscribed and the entities themselves mostly confined to another realm.

Jim McPherson's PHANTACEA Mythos chronicles their ongoing striving for a return to paramountcy.

Phantacea Publications are distributed worldwide by Ingram Books, Ingram International and Coutts Information Services

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Rendering Reddening

Rendering Reddening backgound collage prepared by Jim McPherson, 2012

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Goddess Gambit's Original Cover

Final version of cover for Goddess Gambit, artwork by Verne Andru, 2012

Before 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

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Wraparound Cover for pH-6

Detail of cover for Phantacea Six, artwork by Verne Andru, 1980

And 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 howsoever 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

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This Little Pinky

Reddening rendered pink, collage by Jim McPherson, 2012

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Graphics and lynx prepared for "The Thousand Days of Disbelief"

| Images that went into Hellion's cover | Images that went into Contagion's cover | Images that went into Fangers' cover | Sedon, Great Gods and the Fauns Frolic Image | Herta Heartthrob and more Master Devas | Strife, Fecundity and a couple of actual Deviants | Vetala gets nasty, a Demonic Demiurge, Utopians and Ring-Gotten Devils | Direct Lynx to Bosch and Durer images elsewhere |

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Tomcat Tattletail

A satyr reminiscent of Tomcat Tattletail, shot in Met Museum NYC by Jim McPherson, 2009

I shot this satyr in NYC's Met Museum in 2009

Tomcat Tattletail is the faerie-type Harmony is so enthralled with in Hellion. There's more on him here, here, here, here and here.

Even though I've collected a few other likenesses of Tomcat, which currently sit in my archives awaiting a mini-essay on him, I decided use this one because of the anguished facial expression.

As for why he goes by the Q-name of Squirrelly in Hellion, hey, just look at him.

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The Death's Head Hellion

Front and back cover for The Death's Head Hellion, artwork prepared by Jim McPherson, 2010

The front and back cover for the original digest version of "The Death's Head Hellion"; its back cover text is here whereas the current cover is here and its blurb is here.

There's an enlargement of the Cosme Tura picture here, along some more details as to why I decided it represents Master Morgan Abyss.

As for why I refer to her as the Weirdom of Cabalarkon's demonically-empowered Master, well, guess whom she somehow got hold of after she got rid of the devil possessing her.

Or, if you're not one for guesswork, you could just click here, here and/or here.

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NYC's Faux Bosch

An unidentified painting spotted in the Met Museum in NYC done in the style of Hieronymous Bosch, photo by Jim McPherson, 2009

Many painters tried to emulate Bosch's style in the 16th and 17th centuries. I took this picture of one such painting (unaccredited as near as I could discover) in New York City's Metropolitan Museum in 2009.

I use part of it to represent Magnus Minus, the mighty Minotaurus of Minius (Absudyl), which lies directly beneath the Weirdom of Cabalarkon (Sedon's Devic Eye-Land on a map of the Hidden Headworld).

inverted map of Sedon's Head, prepared by Jim McPherson and Tim Hammell in 1978

Double-click on the map to enlarge it to its 1978-standard black on white format.

A clickable version of it is on the Peculiar Places page whereas the more than just moderately amazing story of what I spotted in Cairo's Egyptian Museum is retold here and here.

There's more on Magnus Minus, who appears as a daemonic demiurge in Hellion, here, here and here.

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Daemonic Royalty (Daemonicus & Primeval Lilith)

Lilith and Daemonicus, prepared by Jim McPherson, 2010

The figure representing Primeval Lilith, the Demon Queen of the Night, is by Henry Fuseli (1741-1825).

He 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.

As for whether Demon Queen Lilith or Demon King Daemonicus-Smiler even appear in either mini-novel, well, let's just say not explicitly and leave it at that.

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The Rat-Catcher of Hamelin

The Pied Piper of Hamelin, as scanned in from Fortean Times, 2010

Yes, I cannot spot the signature of Jordan "Q for Quill" Tethys in this shot either.

Yes also, in the Legendarian's defence, it is a copy of the a stained glass window he purports to have done early in the Outer Earth's 14th Century.

And, no, none of the rats are tee-tees. They're children. The koppen or calvary-like hillock is shaped like a tholos. though.

As for the cave's entrance, well, at a stretch it might pass for a skull-shape or golgotha. Myself, though, I don't stretch that far.

The copy reproduced here dates to 1592. It's by Augustin von Moersperg. The actual window was destroyed in 1660.

(This information is from FT 264, of which more here.)

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The Anonymous Fiend

Budapest's Anonymous, shot by Jim McPherson in 2010

The Smiling Fiend is obviously not smiling in this shot of Budapest's famous Anonymous.

That said, given what Smiler's main attribute appears to be throughout the phantacea Mythos — namely that no one can remember him unless he's standing right in front of him or her and mindfully wants them to remember him — Anon has to be him.

It's almost impossible to hit a webpage on either of the two main phantacea websites that doesn't reference Smiler.

One taken from Hellion is here. A bunch of others link from here, here and here.

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Contagion Collectors

Front and back cover for Contagion Collector, artwork prepared by Jim McPherson, 2010

The front and back cover for the original digest version of"Contagion Collectors"; its back cover text is here whereas the current cover is here and its blurb is here.

Bosch's 'Ascent of the Empyrean' provides the background on the front and back covers; lynx to it and his Garden of Earthly Delights are below

Cameo of a Venice Plague Doctor, shot by Jim McPherson, 2008

The original blurb re the Contagion Doctor is here

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Hoodoo Housing

Hoodoo housing spotting in Cappadocia, photo by Jim McPherson, 2003

I shot the cliff-dwellings or, as they're called there, hoodoo housing in Cappadocia when I passed through it again in 2003.

Although they're not usually found on the coast of rainforests, something about the air beneath the Sedon Sphere allows for exceptional, um, exclusions from normality.

The double-click opens a new window with a larger version of the one I used on the Contagion cover. This one is more mound-like, which fits with who built the Hoodoo Hamlet visited in the mini-novel.

There are three brief travelogues re my trips to Turkey linked from here; the spookiest one, appropriately entitled 'The Phantom Train and other not quite Turkish delights', is here.

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Devils & Deviants

Devils & Deviants collage prepared by Jim McPherson, 2011

Have to say deviants (the half-sons or half-daughters of Master Devas while possessing mortal men or women) tend to be more sympathetic characters than their seemingly immortal half-parent or parents.

Guess that's because mortality makes mamas (and papas) more, um, simpatico.

The Smiler figure's from New York's Metropolitan Museum. The shrouded beauty, representative of the incomparable Harmony, the Unity of Balance as well as Panharmonium, is from the Victoria & Albert (V&A) museum in London.

Can't currently recall where the pinkish and demure Janna figure came from but have to say she doesn't look much like a Terrible Twin. Maybe that's why not just Abe Chaos fell for her.

Do know the wild-eyed fellow's from a postcard I bought in Germany. He was supposed to represent the other Terrible Twin, Sraddha Somata.

Too bad I couldn't find a picture of a black, bald and bearded hybrid-Utopian in my photo-archives.

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Raised, not Razed

Embossed version of Fangers' front cover, prepared by Jim McPherson, 2011

Good effect, eh?

It's called "embossing" on Photoshop, in case you were wondering.

What is razed during "The 1000 Days of Disbelief" – or near enough, and not altogether entirely due to the Trigregos Titaness, Hubby Zalman or their Terrible Twins – is the Hidden Continent of Sedon's Head.

That it survived, or is surviving, in the Year of the Dome 5980, does not mean it will continue to do so.

Hence the 'Launch 1980' story cycle that began with War-Pox and carries on in the as-yet-upcoming "Goddess Gambit".

Gambit, btw (by the way), is not just based on the phantacea comic books (culminating in pH-6), it's, um, extrapolated from this web-serial and this draft (draught?) of ditto.

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Viennese Vetala

Tiled version of a painting spotted and shot in Vienna by Jim McPherson, , 2009

This effect is called "tiling" on Photoshop. I like it.

As for why I called her the Viennese Vetala, that's because I shot her there. (All right, so I cloned in the 3rd eye. Big Whoop!)

Artist's name is Egon Schiele (1890-1918). A contemporary of Gustav Klimt, the Wikipedia webpage re him is here.

If he was still around I'd hire him. He's captured the relationship between Nergal Vetala and Janna become Fangfingers damn near perfectly — emphasis on 'damn'.

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Janna Fangfingers

Full cover for Janna Fanfingers, text and collage by Jim McPherson, 2011

The front and back cover for "Janna Fangfingers"; its back cover text is here.

I used some of the same images in the 'Deviants & Devils' collage here;
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As for the 'Devils in Disguise' collage below, Unholy Abaddon and Lightning Lord Yajur were taken from the Web; others are as per the notes on the 'Deviants & Devils' collage at the start of this row.

The central image of Death in a Hat (holding a man's head, not the other way around) was shot in a main street in Budapest, Hungary.

Devils in Disguise collage prepared by Jim McPherson, 2011

I shot the hand in the British Museum but the fangs themselves, shown as if to finish off the fang-fingered glove, come from New York's Metropolitan Museum.

Re the owl, representative of Metowl (Titanic Metis), I'll have to get back to you on her.

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Fauns Frolic Feverishly

Collage of fauns frolicking, prepared by Jim McPherson, 2011

Sooth said, they do a lot more than frolic feverishly – and I'm not just referring to how fabulously they play the Syrian or panpipes.

For one thing, if this collage can be trusted (which it can't), they also seem to float contentedly once they're done whatever they were doing ever so feverishly.

It all has to do with the pheromones they secrete, you see. As for why this collage can't be trusted, as both Harmony and her triplet brother, Lord Order, discover in Hellion, demons do fauns just as well as they do anything else – which is to say, well enough for the moment.

Simultaneously, or at least almost in the same moment, Uncle Abe and Bedazzling Belialma discover denim-demons can do double-duty as panting pants.

All in all, they'd thereafter all agree, if they got the chance, it's a very hardening experience all around.

Except, that is, for phantacea's most famous fauna, Pusan Wanderlust.

For her, the experience isn't so much electrifying as it is electrocuting.

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There's only ever one winner of a Sedonplay

Collage  referring to the fact that only the Moloch Sedon ever wins a Sedonplay, graphic prepared by Jim McPherson, 2008

Dark Sedon is a notorious gamesman. But is he actually playing a game in "The Death's Head Hellion" or has he been trapped in dozens of ancient eyeorbs forged in the First Weirworld — ones that will actually keep him torn apart and imprisoned indefinitely?

I could answer that but I'd rather you read Hellion yourself.

There's more on this graphic here.

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The Great God Lazareme as Thrygragos Everyman

3 Images suggestive of Thrygragos Lazareme, collage prepared by Jim McPherson, 2008

Thrygragos Lazareme was in some respects proof of the theorem that in every individual there resides the spark of godhood.

Put another way, if God, as he’d heard, was made in the image and likeness of whomever or whatever, he had an innate as well as, to quote him at his acerbic best, God-given aptitude for unthinkingly making sure he looked the part.

There's more on this graphic here.

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Helios order Machine Memory to nuke Weir Star

Artwork by Ian Fry, late 1980s, colour and text by Jim McPherson, 2007

The Trigregos Sisters appeared in pH-2, pH-4 and the graphic novel, "Forever & 40 Days – The Genesis of phantacea".

They have yet to appear to appear in any of the mosaic novels but their terrible talismans certainly do, otherwise I'd have to come up with a different title for 'The Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories'.

As for the Dual Entities, well, it may yet prove they appear whenever Thrygragos Lazareme or his indescribable daughter Harmony, the Unity of both Balance and Panharmonium.

There's more on this graphic here.

Hell to Earth artwork by Ian Fry, late 1980s; colour and script by Jim McPherson, 2007

There's more on the Sedonshem landing, and who it landed on top of in 666 PD (Pre-Dome), here.

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The Luscious Lady Lust

Apple Goddess Collage most specific to Bouncing Belle, graphic prepared by Jim McPherson, 2008

Hell's Belle lives her attribute. In Feel Theo, she seems primarily interested in Cruel Plathon, the Bull of Mithras.

In Hellion, she bounces from Uncle Abe Chaos (Unholy Abaddon) to his father, Thrygragos Lazareme, to his hated brother, Lord Order.

In Contagion, well, she only has a short but telling conversation with Harmony before she heads back to Chaos for some extracurricular star-gazing.

As for "Janna Fangfingers", the third part of 1000-Daze, remind to add to this entry when it comes out.

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Herta Heartthrob

Datong Harmonia, collage by Jim McPherson ,2009

Dire, age 4, is a Norman Notable. In phantacea pHact he's actually Albrecht Durer, whom you may have heard of before. Dire and the hound Drang (whose name I admittedly also made up) appear a few times during Contagion.

It's my contention that Durer, like Bosch and the notorious Spanish inquisitor, Torquemada, were recruited by Contagion Collectors organized by Quoits Tethys (whose main agents were Tomcat Tattletail and Herta Heartthrob) and thereafter actually spent some time on the Hidden Headworld.

Strikes me as obvious, especially when it comes to Bosch and Durer.

I mean, where else would they have come up with such fantastical imagery firsthand, especially at the tail end of the Outer Earth's plague-ridden 15th Century?

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Lathakra's Death God of Heat and Fire

Minerva as Methandra, photo taken in Frankfurt by Jim McPherson, 2008

Standard wisdom has it that bygone Illuminaries of Weir (on Earth) came up with Methandra's name by combining letters making up Mediterranean Athena (Minerva in Roman Mythology).

I'm pretty sure it actually derived from the name of Crete's Mother Goddess, who lived on Strongyne (modern day Santorini) until the infamous day Novadev got drunk and blew its heart into the sky.

But, hey, who am I to argue with standard wisdom. I'll leave that to Wisdom of Lazareme, who's quoted here (right next to where I cribbed this image.)

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Lathakra's Death God of Cold and Ice

Collage suggestive of King Cold, prepared by Jim McPherson, 2011

The Death God's of Lathakra (Cold and Heat) are Mithradite firstborn. Their triplet brother is Phantast Thanatos, the Death God of Dream.

Phantast doesn't appear in 'The Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories' Trilogy. He isn't mentioned very often either. And when he is it's usually in the same sentence as Strife and the Crimson Conspiracy of circa 4000 YD.

Tantal and Methandra do, however, especially, as per here, in Hellion. As does their azura daughter Klannit (the Mirror Mentalist).

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Mithras's Golden Avenger

Collage on Faceless Strife prepared by Jim McPherson, 2007,  integral images taken from Web

Just because Faceless Strife, Mithras's so-called Ewe for Aries and the devic half-mother of Taurus Chrysaor Attis, doesn't appear in Hellion, that doesn't mean devils realize it.

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Daddy Cabby's Champion

Tura's Allegory of Spring reminds me of Morgan Abyss, the Master of Weir circa 4825 YD

At least that's one way of thinking about Morgan Abyss, the Master of the Weirdom of the Cabalarkon (Sedon's Devic Eye-Land on a map of the Hidden Continent) in 4824/5.

It may or may not be the way she thinks about herself. It certainly isn't the way devils think about her, especially after the events of the Infernal Equinox.

Until then they probably didn't think about her very much at all. If they did, which Harmony did prior to Mithramas 4824, they likely reckoned her Pyrame's shell.

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Deviancies and phantacea

Some of the Deviants appearing in 1000 Daze, Jim McPherson 2011

Some of 1000-Daze's Deviants include, as noted in this graphic, Q-Troupe's Squirrelly, Master Morgan Abyss, Pusan Wanderlust, Tomcat Tattletail and the ever-present Jordan 'Quill' Tethys.

Images incorporated in this collage come from a variety of places, Durer included. The quill's actually taken from a wall painting I spotted and shot in Vancouver some years back now.

As per here, I also used it on the cover for "Janna Fangfingers", the third mini-novel extracted from 1000-Daze.

 

Nergal Vetala as Fecundity

An ancient goddess with a moon-sickle, photographed in a one-time Roman bathouse, circa Nero's time, in  2008

She waxes and wanes with the moon, on a monthly basis, but as the Nergalids' Grower, she's also related to fertility goddesses such as the Roman Ceres (hence our word 'cereal').

The thing about Ceres and her ilk is they're mostly perceived as beneficent. Vetala is too, at least initially and especially by the Iraches of Sedon's Mutton Chop (on a map of the Hidden Continent).

Of course, they like nothing better than having their ancestors over for tea and buttered scones.

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Vetala's also a (very nasty) Moon Goddess

Vetala as Moon Goddess Fecundity, image of a Judith figure shot in Florence, Italy, by Jim McPherson 2008

The reference is mainly to what she, when in seductress mode, does to Pyrame Silverstar in Feel Theo.

She's much better behaved in Hellion and Contagion, though she does suggest to Order that he cathonitizes himself, which isn't a very nice thing to say to a Master Deva.

(As per here, it's way worse than telling a devil to go f**k himself, which of course is what Geld Neargon does whenever he-she desires azuras.)

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Magnus Minus, the Mighty Minotaurus of Minius

Shot of a demon, behind glass, taken by Jim McPherson in Lima, Peru, in 1998 and modified on PHOTOSHOP in 2007

Minius is Absudyl, the Subterranean Land of the Mandroids, beneath Sedon's Devic Eye-Land on a map of the Hidden Continent of Sedon's Head.

As for who made Minus in the first place, the double-click suggests Pyrame Silverstar.

One mustn't forget who she was occupying, unless it was the other way around (as would seem the case in Hellion), throughout most of the Head's history, however.

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Utopians of Weir

The caption reads: Mythos Utopian Eyeorbs Manifesting Gargoyle; images of Cacuceus and Gargoyles were taken from the Internet and  put together by Jim McPherson, using PHOTOSHOP, in 2004

There were (as opposed to 'are') two Weirworlds. The second one is where the Trigregos Sisters were last seen in the comic books and graphic novel.

There are also a variety of different kinds of Utopians in phantacea. Hybrid Utopians, who are no longer purebloods, are mostly found outside the Weirdom of Cabalarkon (Sedon's Devic Eye-Land on a map of the Hidden Headworld).

As such they dominate proceedings in Contagion. Pure U-Bloods are the focus in Hellion, however.

That said, Morgan Abyss, the Master of Cabalarkon throughout the mini-novel, isn't even a hybrid. That doesn't mean she doesn't hate Sedon, though.

Far from it!

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Ring-Gotten Devils

Ringot with Metowl, by Bosch

Virtually ever since I began phantacea on the Web in (gasp!) 1996, I've run a feature entitled Serendipity. It chronicles all sorts of serendipitous discoveries that make me wonder how much I've actually made up and how much of phantacea is real.

Consider now ringots. Those familiar with the comic books (Aristotle 'Ringleader 2' Zeross) and/or the Web Serials (Angelo 'Ringleader 1' Zeross) will have recognized them straightaway.

Centuries before either Zeross, father or son, came along, they figure rather irreplaceably in both Hellion and Contagion.

Intriguingly, nay serendipitously, guess what Bosco, age 26, must have spotted in the not precisely aforementioned Garden of Earthy Delights besides the Juggler (double-click for a cut-out)?

Yep, a ringot — and not just any ringot either but one containing Metisophia, the Legendarian's devic half-mother. How do I know this?

Well, in "Janna Fangfingers", the concluding third of 1000-Daze, guess who returns? As for why she's called Metowl by then, um, well (again), it gets complicated.

Aka Titanic Metis, she doesn't feature in Hellion because she's been ring-gotten. (Her purloined cauldron does, however.)

And the Juggler's on the cover of Contagion at least in part because his belly shows Metis ring-gotten. Only, I just realized that about a year after I prepared the cover.

Talk about serendipity delayed.

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Covers for 2 1000-Daze mini-novels, prepared by Jim McPherson, 2010covers for Contagion Collectors and Death's Head HellionThere are plenty of websites that display artwork by Hieronymous Bosch (Bosco, age 26, in "Contagion Collectors") and Albrecht Durer (Dire, age 4, in "Contagion Collectors"). Wikipedia, for example, has plenty by both. In order to save you a search, I've highlighted a few of them.

In terms of Bosch, I took the Juggler and the lower edge of the front cover for Contagion from a triptych entitled 'The Garden of Earthly Delights'. For reasons made clear therein, it's called the garden of earthy delights in Contagion. The mini-novel also makes clear that Bosch didn't make it up — at least he didn't within the phantacea Mythos.

'The Ascent of the Empyrean', which appears on both the front and back cover of Contagion, is one-fourth of a major work entitled 'Visions of Beyond'. The version I used is from a poster replacing the actual painting in the Doge's palace of Venice. Apparently the original was being cleaned while I was there in 2008.

As for Durer, the putto (who once ate Sinistral Envy), Drang (not yet a dachshund, thus not yet having wolfed down the murine crud containing Camorva Freeflight) and Herta Heartthrob (a technically daemonic, hence soulless, earthborn eidolon given flesh) come from Melancholia.

(Should perhaps add, as a bonus teaser, that Herta is a melancholic angel in the sense that she has wings and is lovely, except she seems plagued by sadness at her own lack of fulfillment. Above all else, she wants to wholly devour the Unity of Balance, whom even she perceives as Beauty Incarnate, instead of simply settling for gathered-up scum-cream left behind on Tholoi hearthstones that Harmony used to get to the Outer Earth in pursuit of Tomcat Tattletail – a character introduced as such in Hellion – long, and often, pre-book.)

Both Death and the goatish Devil came from 'The Knight'. The 'Four Horsemen' came from just that. Two version of page backgroundsTwo versions of potential cover for 1000 Daze, prepared by Jim McPherson, 2009As for why he depicted the rider with the Scales of Justice (unless it's for weighing produce in times of pestilence, drought, and/or consequential famine) as a man instead of the most incomparably gorgeous woman ever beheld by everyone, well, assuming the phantacea Mythos isn't pure fantasy, Dire was only 4 at the time of Contagion and might have been missing his mother, if not his dog.

The British Museum has piles of Durer's prints. It even puts out a small hardcover that can probably be ordered online as if just to prove it. I scanned in the ones I used for the covers on this page, as well as its background images, from art books I already had at home.

Just by the bye, as per here, Durer's Death looks a lot like old King Cold, Tantal Thanatos, did in the comic books. Which is doubly appropriate since Cold is one of the aforementioned Death Gods of Lathakra – the other being immediate sister Methandra, Hot Stuff, Mithras's Virgin (in both Feel Theo and Hellion, though no longer in the comic books) or just plain Heat (after her attribute) – and Thanatos is the name of the Ancient Greek God of Death.

Just as interesting (to me anyhow), Durer's Devil might well be someone the recurring deviant, Pusan Wanderlust, would fall for in both Hellion and Contagion. That's because, as per here, Pusan's a female faun or fauna and everyone knows what fauns are best at doing, a lot. It's also why I incorporated Durer's Devil into the Deviancies graphic.

NOTE: the last two images in this panel don't double-click. They roll over, rather effectively I feel.

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Front and Back Cover for "The War of the Apocalyptics"

Two covers for the War of the Apocalyptics, the first by Ian Bateson, 2009, and the second by Jim McPherson, 2003

The cover artwork is by Ian Bateson, 2009. It's a re-rendered version of a cover he prepared for PHANTACEA Phase One #2, which was never published. A black and white version of that cover can be found here and here.

Ian Bateson's Mighty Eye-Mouth in the Sky (aka the Sedon Sphere, Cathonia, the Cathonic Zone, Dome or just the Dome) first appeared on the cover of PHANTACEA Phase One #1. A slightly different version of it can be found here.

Dark Sedon as Star Sedon or the Mighty Moloch in the Sky has been a staple of Jim McPherson's PHANTACEA Mythos since pH-1 came out in the Fall of 1977. There are some, um, semi-serendipitous variations of it here.

The rollover features a previous, albeit only tentative, version of a cover prepared for the same book by Jim McPherson in 2003. Text by Jim McPherson. Lynx to more information re this particular graphic can be found here.

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Lynx leading to a partial list of excerpts from the novel can be found here. Back cover text can be found here.

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Full Cover for Feeling Theocidal, artwork by Verne Andru, 2008; rollover image is an earlier effort at creating a cover for the novel, collage prepared by Jim McPherson using only his own photographs, 2006

Front and Back Cover for "Feeling Theocidal"

Cover artwork by Verne Andru, 2008. Rollover features a previous, albeit only tentative, version of a cover as prepared by Jim McPherson, 2007/8. Text by Jim McPherson.

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"The Moloch Manoeuvres"

Potential Cover for Manoeuvres, prepared by Jim McPherson

A web-serial set in Rome over the course of a couple of days at the end of January 1938; main website is either here or here.

Count Molech is one of the main characters but he's hardly the only one manoeuvring. All those Summoning Children coming of age round about now, they're the result of manoeuvres by a differently spelled Molech back in the early Spring 1920 -- the Moloch Sedon!

 

THE SPECULATIVE COVERS GALLERY

'The VAM Entity'

A collage entitled 'The VAM Entity', prepared on PHOTOSHOP by Jim McPherson, 2007

Graphic identifies the VAM Entity as Varuna Ahriman Mithras. Might they be the first born of Thrygragos Sedon?

That's what the Smiling Fiend claims during "Feeling Theocidal", the first full-length, all prose novel featuring Jim McPherson's Phantacea Mythos

More on the Amalgam Abomination and his two putative brothers here.

 

"The War of the Apocalyptics"

A potential dust cover for "The War of the Apocalyptics", prepared on PHOTOSHOP by Jim McPherson, 2005

A web-serial inspired by the Phantacea comic book series of the same name; main website is here

"The Trigregos Gambit"

A potential dust cover for "The Triggregos Gambit", prepared on PHOTOSHOP by Jim McPherson, 2005

A web-serial inspired by the Phantacea comic book series of entitled the Soldier's Saga; main website is here

"Decimation Damnation"

Potential cover for Jim McPherson's Decimation Damnation. The text on the back cover under the Mythos logo reads as follows: "By the time the Damnation Brigade regroups in the Weirdom of Cabalarkon only 8 of the original 10 are left. One of them is Wilderwitch. She's pregnant. Her soul-self is too. Make that two. And soon there might be none. D-Brig really should have called themselves something less self-fulfilling."

Some members of the Damnation Brigade survived the War of the Apocalyptics -- at least for a few weeks; main website is here

"Tsishah's Twilight"

Potential cover for Jim McPherson's Tsishah's Twilight. The text on the back cover under the Mythos logo reads as follows: "Tsishah Twilight, 47, is the Anthean Aortic of Shenon, Witch Isle. She was once possessed of a devil. Now she wears a demon. In life her demon's name was Shahiyeha. Shah's parents are long dead. The one of them isn't and Tsishah suddenly finds herself in truly Deep Dreck!

Recall Iraches from the Soldier's Saga and 'The Trigregos Gambit'? Hardly all of them are or were Dead Things Walking; main teasers for the pH-Webworld web-serial are here and here

 

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The 1st and 2nd Generations of Devazurkind

Exclusive to phantacea.com: Excerpts taken from "Feeling Theocidal"

| Images or Collages suggestive of Thrygragos Mithras | Collages indicative of Lazaremist Extremists | Collages referencing the Moloch Sedon |

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Once a chapter, now a full-length novel

Front Cover for "Feeling Theocidal", a PHANTACEA Mythos Print Publication, Artwork by Verne Andru, 2008

The latest list of lynx leading to excerpts from "Feeling Theocidal"

Tri-Solar Disorder

Collage  referring to Thrygragos Mithras having been many different gods over time, graphic prepared by Jim McPherson, 2008

Could be the Great God Varuna Mithras have once been but a third of the Amalgam Abaomination? Could he actually have suffered from Tri-Solar Disorder

A third of the Amalgam Abomination speaks

Collage  referring to Thrygragos Mithras perhaps getting too big for his toga, graphic prepared by Jim McPherson, 2008

Smiler says: "Don't let yourself get a swelled head -- because it might just fall off!"

Broken chains as chain lightning

Part of a mural by David Alfaro Siqueiros, woman struggling against chains reminiscent of Datong Harmonia, the Unity of Panharmonium, photo taken in 2005 by Jim McPherson, graphic prepared on PHOTOSHOP, 2007

Antique Illuminaries of Weir named her Datong Harmonia; two thousand years later the Unity of Balance, generally best known as the incomparable Harmony, proclaimed herself also the Unity of Panharmonium;

Thrygragos Everyman

3 Images suggestive of Thrygragos Lazareme, collage prepared by Jim McPherson, 2008

The Great God Lazareme doesn't just look like the Male Entity when he looks in a mirror; he was grown from his cells

Disuniting the Unities

A jumble of shots, most of which were found on the Web, indicative of Thrygragos Lazarene and his 3 Unities circa 4376 YD, prepared by Jim McPherson, 2008

The 3 Unities of Lazareme as Thunder and Lightning Lord Order, Balance and Abe Chaos

The Mighty Eye-Mouth in the Sky

Collage  referring to the Moloch Sedon as the mighty Eye-Mouth in the Sky, graphic prepared by Jim McPherson, 2008

The Demon as well Devil King loves playing games so much sometimes he just can't stay altogether above the Hidden Headworld

There's only ever one winner of a Sedonplay

Collage  referring to the fact that only the Moloch Sedon ever wins a Sedonplay, graphic prepared by Jim McPherson, 2008

That still doesn't stop him playing them

Beware of Firstborns -- Especially if you are a firstborn!

Beware of Firstborns - A collage prepared by Jim McPherson, 2008

The Hidden Headworld's most revered Death Gods, the two Thanatoids of Lathakra, believe they are the firstborn of Thrygragos Mithras. They might be wrong.

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Female Mithradite Master Devas of the Exceedingly Treacherous Variety

| The Three 2nd-Born Apple Goddesses | Gorgons, the Medusa & a Devil Child (Unless Trala's Pyrame-Lilith's Demon Child) | Pyrame's Progressions |

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Apple Goddess Collage most specific to Divine Coueranna, graphic prepared by Jim McPherson, 2008

The Little Green Apple of Juvenescence

Apple Goddess Collage most specific to Bouncing Belle, graphic prepared by Jim McPherson, 2008

The Ruby Red Apple of Concupiscence

Collage on Faceless Strife prepared by Jim McPherson, 2007,  integral images taken from Web

The Golden Apple of Discord (sort of)

Pyrame Silverstar as the Perpetual Presence, collage prepared by Jim McPherson using some of his own pictures, 2004

Pyrame Silverstar as the fabulously female Perpetual Presence

Pyrame as the Cretan Snake Goddess, Queen Tanith, collage prepared by Jim McPherson, 2004

Pyrame as the Snake Goddess (Queen Tanith of Crete) circa 2000-2500 YD (2000-1500 BC)

Collage reminiscent of Pyrame Silverstar, prepared on PHOTOSHOP by Jim McPherson, 2008

Pyrame as Providence, as a silver-haired humanoid and as a tetrahedron-headed devil

Collage featuring the 3 Mithradite gorgon, prepared by Jim McPherson, 2008

The Legendarian claims that the 3 Mithradite Gorgons (the Medusa, the Cockatrice and the Basilisk) are, in reality, from the same brood of lowborn triplets but Mithras thinks differently

Collage featuring various shots of Medusa, prepared by Jim McPherson, 2008

The re-embodied Medusa may not be a 12th born Mithradite but, howsoever grandiosely, she declares herself Mater Matare - Mother Murder - the Apocalyptic of Death - on Thrygragon, 4376 YD

Collage suggestive of Tralalorn and her White Dwarf talisman, prepared by Jim McPherson, 2008

Tralalorn and her faces-roiling, feces-reeking, faeriedust-spitting Powder Puff Power Focus

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The Sedonshem Landing

Hell to Earth artwork by Ian Fry, late 1980s; colour and script by Jim McPherson, 2007

Drawn by Ian Fry, taken from PHANTACEA: 4-Ever & 40 Days, published in 1990;

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Collage entitled "Jordan Tethys", b/w artwork by Ian Fry, prepared on PHOTOSHOP by Jim McPherson, 2007

Sequence featuring Jordan Tethys from "Forever & 40 Days - The Genesis of PHANTACEA", which can still be ordered; artwork by Ian Fry, 1990, with a contribution from Hieronymous Bosch, ca 1500 AD; the same graphic is also used here and here; Bosch's Wanderers are also used here and here;

"Nuke Weirstar!"

Artwork by Ian Fry, late 1980s, colour and text by Jim McPherson, 2007

from PHANTACEA: 4-Ever & 40 Days, published in 1990;

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The Black Rose of Anarchy

The Black Rose of Anarchy, artwork by Peter Lynde, 1978

The Black Rose of Anarchy, from pH-3 as published in 1978

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Sample Artwork from the Comics & Graphic Novel

Front and back cover for 4ever40, art by Ian Fry and Ian Bateson, 1990

A detailed, section-by-section overview of "Forever & 40 Days - The Genesis of PHANTACEA" starts here

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Not always a mild-mannered professor

[IMAGE OF DOC DEFIANCE, FROM PH-2]

Doc Defiance, the Gypsium Man, from pH-2, published in 1978

"Nuclear Dragons" and "Helios on the Moon" novelized parts of pH-1, pH-2, pH-4 and the scripted, but never completed pH-7

"Hear me, fascistes"

Helios announcing to the world that he was taking over, from pH-3 as drawn by Richard Sandoval in 1978

Helios threatening to destroy 'fascistes', from pH-3, published in 1978

Rhadamanthys Revealed

Unpublished Wraparound Cover prepared for PHANTACEA Phase One by Verne Andru circa 1987.

Potential cover for reprint of pH-6 (unpublished)

Link to Verne Andru's '420' Website

Yes, he's that Cain!

Cover from Cain, Slayer of Abel, artwork by Ian Fry, 1988

Anti-Patriarch Cain raising the Golden Calf, from PHANTACEA: 4-Ever & 40 Days, published in 1990

Never have human eyes beheld such a sight

The Byronic and Apocalptic Nucleii atomizing each other, from pH-5, art by George Freeman and Verne Andru, 1980

The Byronhead encounters the Apocalyptic Nucleus, from pH-5, published in 1980

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Without Heroes

Graphic prepared on PHOTOSHOP by Jim McPherson, 2005; main image suggestive of Rakshas demons

The word 'anheroic' means just that, "without heroes".

As for why Phantacea has almost always been captioned Anheroic Fantasy (often illustrated), check out the essay entitled just that: Anheroic Fantasy

Illustrated Mini Essays

The Trigregos Talismans

Gif used on back cover of potential dustcover for 'The Trigregos Gambit', prepared on PHOTOSHOP by Jim McPherson, 2005,

'The Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories' epic fantasy began as a web-serial. Nowadays it comprises three multi-character Phantacea Mythos novels:
"Feeling Theocidal", "The 1000 Days of Disbelief", and "Goddess Gambit")

The essay is here.

Bad Rhad Wants It All

Jpeg entitled 'The outstretched, grasping hand', prepared on PHOTOSHOP by Jim McPherson, 2005

He may even get it, too. Though perhaps not precisely how he wanted it.

Essay is here.

Faeries & PHANTACEA

A photo of a faerie stuck in a tree taken by Jim McPherson in Vancouver Canada

Sometimes faeries get caught in trees. One time a really big faerie walked through a Faerie Garden with Wilderwitch.

Essay is here

Vampires in pre-Columbian Honduras

Mayan Statue of a Vampire Bat, taken at Copan Honduras by Jim McPherson, 2003

It's true. This fellow was spotted and shot in Copan, once a Mayan stronghold but nowadays not much more than a museum in a park full of ruins.

Essay is here.

Sedon's Head: Inspiration or Destination?

Aerial Shot of Giza Plateau taken in the 20s or 30s

Want to get there? Go though the door between Andy's forelegs

The most serendipitous discovery of many made by Jim McPherson, the creator/writer of the Phantacea Mythos

Full-length essay is here

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The Time-Tumbling Dual Entities in Egypt

[SIDE SHOT OF TWO COLOSSI REMINISCENT OF THE DUAL ENTITIES TAKEN OUTSIDE THE GREAT TEMPLE OF ABU SIMBEL, EGYPT, PHOTO BY JIM MCPHERSON, 2000]

Rameses the Second built this on land that's now submerged by the Nasser Dam; too bad he never noted if he was the Male Entity in whatever lifetime

 

Photos Suggestive of Characters Featured in the PHANTACEA Mythos

The Dual Entities in the British Museum

Statues reminiscent of the Dual Entities, photo taken in the British Museum by Jim McPherson in 2005

They do get around, don't they. Here's more.

 

Magnus Minus of Minius

Shot of a demon, behind glass, taken by Jim McPherson in Lima, Peru, in 1998 and modified on PHOTOSHOP in 2007

Demonic figure spotted and shot in Lima, Peru, late Nineties

(double-click for Minus as he appeared on front cover of "The Death's Head Hellion")

Mrs Sundown meshes with Morg's Grandmother

Painting spotted on a subway wall suggestive of Sorciere manifesting herself through Granny Garuda, photo by Jim McPherson, 2005

In what could be a sequence straight out of 'The Moloch Manoeuvres' web-serial, Sorciere seen coming out of Granny Garuda, except it was spotted and shot on the wall of a subway in Mexico City in the mid-2000s and not in the Rome orf 1938

More info on graphic here; see also Sorciere, Granny Garuda and Morgianna Sarpedon

Mars Bellona, the Apocalyptic of War

Bonehead on Vacation, shot of a mask bought in Mexico in the 1980s, photo by Jim McPherson

Masquerading as Bonehead on Vacation in Zihuatanejo, Mexico, early to mid Nineties

(War appeared in "Feeling Theocidal", "The War of the Apocalyptics", "Goddess Gambit" and, at least bodily, "Helios on the Moon")

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What really happed to Jesse's mom?

A Fino's Mary Magdalene, photographed in Puno, Peru, by Jim McPherson, 1998

Lady Lamia (Mary Magdalene nee Ryne Mandam) as the Qosqo (Cusco) Magdalene in Peru

More here

Would you sleep with someone who look like this?

[Mask of a faun as photographed in Antigua Guatemala by Jim McPherson, Year 2001]

Wilderwitch won't, this even though she and Gentleman Jervish Murray are longtime lovers. Even though also what fauns are supposedly really, really good at ...

Dervish Furie as a Faun in Antigua, Guatemala

(From "The War of the Apocalyptics")

double-click for a table shot of more masks and/or bottles along the same lines

Except, where's his flintlock shotgun?

Statue reminiscent of Headless Ramazare, the Apocalyptic of Disaster, photo taken by Jim McPherson in Catania, Sicily, 1997

Headless Ramazar spotted and shot in Catania, Sicily

(The Apocalyptic better known as Catastrophe appeared in "Feeling Theocidal" long prior to "The War of the Apocalyptics")

double-click for an enlarged image of the Catania Ramazar

Once she was beautiful

Medusa's Head on Athena's shield, painting spotted in

Mater Matare (Mother Murder) as a Medusa pinned to Athena's shield; painting spotted and shot at NYC's Met Museum in 2009

(phantacea's Medusa, under whatever name, appeared in "Feeling Theocidal" and "The War of the Apocalyptics"; what the Legendarian's Mama Metis has to say about Matare is either here or here)

double-click for an enlargement of the full painting

The Byronmask as a Thrygragos Talisman

Collage prepared on PHOTOSHOP by Jim McPherson, 2006, intended to represent the Mask of Byron as transformed in 'Feeling Theocidal'

Thrygragos Byron remembered in the form of an Olmec Head in Mexico

(The Unmoving One appeared most prominently in "Feeling Theocidal", "The 1000 Days of Disbelief", and "The War of the Apocalyptics"; more on the Thrygragos Talismans is here)

double-click for a different Olmec head (Byronhead type), one that was sandbagged during a severe flood in Villahermosa, Mexico in 2007
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Medea has a bad rep

Collage made up of a number of images scanned in or else taken from the Web by Jim McPherson, who the mother of the 3rd potential Trig Trip is contained within it; collage prepared by Jim McPherson, 2007

Ophiomedea as a Cockatrice

For 17-year-old Sorciere, Medea Annulis ranked highest on the boo-hiss meter in early 1938

(more shots suggestive of Stheno, the devic Cockatrice from "Feeling Theocidal", can be found here and here)

Shamanitoulin

The Raven Fetishim collage, prepared by Jim McPherson, using pictures mostly taken in Mexcio, 2007

Shaman Manitoulin's Raven Fetishim

Manitoulin is mentioned a few times in War-Pox as the Cheyenne Medicine Man who raised Blind Sundown and thereafter passed his solar spear and the reins of Raven's Head onto him; he also shows up in most of the 1938 web-serials;

He also helped raise Sorciere (Solace Sunrise), her mother Louise Riel become St Synne and Sedon St Synne; fetishim came most strongly into play during 'The Moloch Manoeuvres' web-serial

Number One on the Boo-Hiss Meter in any era

Collage on Faceless Strife prepared by Jim McPherson, 2007,  integral images taken from Web

Faceless Strife is mentioned a few times in War-Pox, albeit as either Wilderwitch or Ramona Avar Ryne and not as a possessive devil; impressions to the contrary, she probably does not appear in the mini-novel "The Death's Head Hellion"; she finally does reappear in the Phantacea Mythos novels "Nuclear Dragons" and "Helios on the Moon"

Hush's Gush

Collage made up of various images suggestive of Young Death, the Male Trickster; prepared by Jim McPherson, 2007, using his own photo as well as images taken from Web

Young Death

Augustus born Nauroz, aka Auguste Moirnoir, the Black Death, is mentioned a few times in War-Pox as the insidious little midget who called Dervish Furie son; he appears, with all his despicable knacks, in "The Trigregos Gambit" web-serial as well as, knacks intact, both "Goddess Gambit" and "Helios on the Moon"

Radiant Rainbow Rider

Fanciful graphic suggestive of Gloriel, prepared on PHOTOSHOP by Jim McPherson, 2005

Gloriella D'Angelo Dark

(Glory of the Angels appears most frequently in "The War of the Apocalyptics"; perhaps suggestively, externalizations virtually identical to her 'little angels' show up in "Contagion Collectors")

Character Collages

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1/3rd of Thrygragos Sedon's Firstborn

Fanciful gif of Bad Rhad as a tree sprite, prepared on PHOTOSHOP by Jim McPherson, 2005

The (almost) Never-Remembered Smiling Fiend

Smiler, under a variety of names and guises, appears in "Feeling Theocidal", "The Trigregos Gambit" and, just maybe, all three parts of "The 1000 Days of Disbelief"; he both speaks and exults briefly in "Helios on the Moon" whereupon, as per usual, he's promptly forgotten

Resolutely not toilet-trained

Raven's Head collage, prepared by Jim McPherson, 2009

Raven's Head

A raven's head appeared on the front cover of "Forever & 40 Days - The Genesis of PHANTACEA"; flying ravendeer also played a part in "Feeling Theocidal";

Raven's Head herself appeared throughout the "The War of the Apocalyptics" as well as in "Goddess Gambit" and "Helios on the Moon"

Hot Stuff

Minerva as Methandra, photo taken in Rome by Jim McPherson, 2008

Mithras's Virgin

Methandra Thanatos, whose attribute is heat, virtually never appears in public unmasked; she also rarely deigns to speak to lesser beings

Miss Myth, as she's also known, appears in "Feeling Theocidal", "The Death's Head Hellion" and "The Trigregos Gambit", but her main claim to fame comes in "Goddess Gambit" and "Helios on the Moon"

Is that D'Angelo or Thanatos?

Image suggestive of Thalassa D'Angelo, prepared by Jim McPherson, 2010

Sea Goddess

As Thalassa D'Angelo she appears in most of the web-serials set in early 1938 as well as in "The War of the Apocalyptics"; it isn't until the final stages of the 'Launch 1938' story cycle that she's all-but-proven to be a fourth generational devil

Who was Jesse's real father

The Dragon of Versailles also appears in Centurium, the central cavern of Temporis, shot by Jim McPherson, text and layout ditto the

Old Man Power

OMP appeared in "The War of the Apocalyptics" and "The Trigregos Gambit"; Magister Mandam, sometimes as Dragon Joe, appeared in most of the early 1938 web-serials

Kronokronos Akbarartha got major league muscular in both "Goddess Gambit" and "Helios on the Moon"

 

Taurus Chrysaor Attis

collage by Jim McPherson, 2008

Aka Theattis, the Golden Brown Warrior or Universal Soldier, he was worshipped throughout the Roman Empire, often in conjunction with the Great Mother God Cybele

Attis appears in "Feeling Theocidal"; also mentioned in "Goddess Gambit" wherein Vetala's Soldier is often referred to as her Attis

The Damnation Brigade

GIFs with transparent backgrounds representing the Damnation Brigade and the Apocalyptics, collage prepared on PHOTOSHOP by Jim McPherson, 2004

Introduced in "The War of the Apocalyptics"; what's left of them also showed up in "Goddess Gambit" and "Helios on the Moon"

Five of them were Summoning Children; as such, much younger versions of most of them played important roles in the pH-Webworld web-serials

Utopians of Weir

The caption reads: Mythos Utopian Eyeorbs Manifesting Gargoyle; images of Cacuceus and Gargoyles were taken from the Internet and  put together by Jim McPherson, using PHOTOSHOP, in 2004

Utopians appeared throughout 'The Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories' epic trilogy ("Feeling Theocidal", "The 1000 Days of Disbelief" and "Goddess Gambit");

they were also in a number of web-serials, including "The Trigregos Gambit"; they were most often depicted in "Forever & 40 Days - The Genesis of PHANTACEA", which can still be ordered

Much more on Utopians here and here

Great Byron's Surviving Firstborn

Collage prepared on PHOTOSHOP by Jim McPherson, 2005

Rudra (Savage Storm) and Umashakti (Gravity) Silvercloud made their most notable appearance in "Goddess Gambit"; they also had important roles in "Feeling Theocidal" and "The 1000 Days of Disbelief"

There's an essay about them here

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There are over 50 lynx here-on. Every one of them opens onto a new browser page. That way you can chance a glance at the graphic in its natural habitat, or pause to read the text, and/or follow the other day-glow lynx on whichever webpage I've directed you. So long as you keep the home and prime picture gallery page open, you can get back here from whenever you've closed down the last one you were looking at, howsoever intently.

BTW, I'm still selling howsoever-trashed, print copies of the PHANTACEA Comic Books. Only issues 1-4 are remain available. Cost for returned copies of the comic books are $5.00 each, CDN or USD. Shipping and handling fees are of course extra. I've also been known to scan in and email copies of any or all of them (meaning #s 5 & 6 as well) at a low, solely screen reproducible, resolution of 72 dpi for an, ahem, somewhat heftier price tag of $10.00 in either currency.

The PHANTACEA Graphic Novel, though, that you can still order at its original $10.00 price tag (plus the inevitable shipping and handling costs). Check out the Ordering Information on pH-Webworld then email me for instructions on how to load up on the whole pile. Be forewarned that I can only accept certified cheques and money orders. Sorry, no credit cards as yet.

Since it's the only snail-mail address I have, whereby reaching me is pretty much guaranteed these days, said certified cheques or money orders must be sent to:

James H McPherson, Publisher
74689 Kitsilano RPO
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