pH-Webworld - bypass banners - quick lynx - bottom of page lynx
Lynx for pHantaBlog RSS: http://phantacea.com/blog/?feed=rss2
This free script provided by
JavaScript Kit
Welcome to pH-Webworld - Jim McPherson's Phantacea Mythos Online- Lynx for pHantaBlog RSS: http://phantacea.com/blog/?feed=rss2; |
Top of Page - Upwards - Downwards - Bottom of Page Ordering Lynx
Coming Soon
Tentative front cover for
Images in this row double-click to enlarge here and here |
The conclusion of the 'Launch 1980' story cycle
Promo for An ever-growing list of excerpts and/or cut-outs from the novel is here
|
The latest Phantacea Mythos Print Publication
Full-length novel concluding the 'Launch 1980' story cycle, Jim McPherson's long-running project to novelize the original PHANTACEA comic book series; graphic is by Jim McPherson, 2012/3, utilizing Richard Sandoval's 1978 front cover art for pH-3 |
Top of Page - Latest Highlights - Upwards - Downwards - Fresh Graphics - Bottom of Page Ordering Lynx |
||
What might have been, now is |
Cataclysm Catalyst
Phantacea Revisited 2Now available for ordering online, the third graphic novel from Phantacea Publications extracts the complete 'Soldier's Saga' from Phantacea 2-6 as well as the 'Hell's Horsemen' sequence as drawn for pH-7 and the 'Origin of the Devil' from the Phantacea Phase One project. Illustrators include Dave Sim, Ian Fry, Sean Newton, Verne Andrusiek (later Andru), and Ian Bateson; full colour cover by Verne Andru off his black and white Rhadamanthys Revealed proposal as reproduced here and here; dedicated webpage is here. - Double-click to enlarge in a separate window here and here - |
What was once, is again
Thirty-six years after its original release, Jim McPherson completes his Launch 1980 project to novelize all the Phantacea comic books with the release of pH-3 artwork by Richard Sandoval, 1978; rollover adjustments made by Jim McPherson, 2013Double-click to enlarge images in this panel here |
Top of Page - Latest Highlights - Upwards - Downwards - Fresh Graphics - Bottom of Page Ordering Lynx |
||
Phantacea Seven- The unpublished comic now partially novelized -
At long last, the second entry in the Launch 1980 epic fantasy has arrived Check out the expanded Availability Listings for places you can order or buy Phantacea Publications in person Images in this row double-click to enlarge here |
Jim McPherson continues his ongoing project to novelize the entire Phantacea comic book seriesDouble-click on image to enlarge in a separate windowDedicated webpage can be found here; back cover text 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 |
Centauri Island- The web-serial enlarged radically -
Ian Bateson's unpublished artwork from Phantacea Seven provides the basis for the first full-length phantacea Mythos Mosaic Novel since 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. Images in this row double-click to enlarge here and here |
Top of Page - Latest Highlights - Upwards - Downwards - Fresh Graphics - Bottom of Page Ordering Lynx |
||
Phantacea Revisited 1
Check out the expanded Availability Listings for places you can order or buy Phantacea Publications in person NEW: Read most of the mini-novels making up "The Thousand Days of Disbelief" today on Google Books Hit here to see what else is currently available there |
Guess what isn't coming soon any more?
Phantacea Revisited 1: The Damnation Brigade"A Watermarked PDF of the graphic novel can be ordered from Drive Thru Comics here
|
The Damnation Brigade Graphic Novel
Artwork never seen before in print; almost all of pH-5 available for the first time since 1980 Images in this row double-click to enlarge here |
Top of Page - Latest Highlights - Upwards - Downwards - Fresh Graphics - Bottom of Page Ordering Lynx |
||
No wonder they call themselves the Damnation Brigade
Both Phantacea Revisited graphic novels are now available from Phantacea Publications.
The survivors may reappear in RV2:CC; always assuming there are any, that is. Images in this row are double-clickable from here, here, and, to a lesser degree, here. |
pHantaBlog On
Register now and contribute whenever you pleaseA variety of mildly interactive PDFs produced specifically for Phantacea Publications can be downloaded here; this season's selected highlights from pHantaBlog are here Hit here for a Really Simple Syndication (RSS) of the most recent pHantaBlog entries |
The Phantacea Revisited Project
Collecting complete storylines from the Phantacea comic book series (1977-1980) and pHz-1 (1987). Rv1:DB contains material from pH #s 1-5 + pHz1 #s 1 & 2. It's the first time in the better part of 30 years that material from pH-5 has been available except from online traders.
RV2:CC contains material from pH #s 1-7 + pHz1 #s 1 & 2. It's the first time the entirety of pH-6 has been reprinted with its hand-lettering corrected.
|
Top of Page - Latest Highlights - Upwards - Downwards - Fresh Graphics - Bottom of Page Ordering Lynx |
||
|
||
Top of Page - Upwards - Downwards - Fresh Graphics - Bottom of Page Ordering Lynx |
||
"Goddess Gambit"– Now available from Phantacea Publications –
Thus Ends
|
||
Top of Page - Upwards - Downwards - Fresh Graphics - Bottom of Page Ordering Lynx |
||
|
||
If they're not, kindly direct local librarians and neighbourhood booksellers to www.phantacea.com in order to start rectifying that sad situation. Either that or, if you're feeling even more proactive, click here, copy the link, paste it into an email and send it to them, along with everyone else you reckon could use a double dose of anheroic fantasy. It will certainly be appreciated. Help build the buzz. The more books sell, the faster the PHANTACEA Mythos spreads.Top of Page - Upwards - Downwards - Fresh Graphics - Bottom of Page Ordering Lynx |
||
 
Individual copies of Libraries, bookstores and bookseller collectives can place bulk orders through Ingram Books, Ingram International, Baker & Taylor, Coutts Information Services, and a large number of other distributors worldwide. E-books for Kindle, Kindle Fire, I-pad, I-phone and other applications can be ordered through amazon.com, amazon.co.uk and other amazon affiliates worldwide. An interactive e-book containing the entirety of BookFinder.com lists the latest releases from Phantacea Publications along with a goodly number of additional booksellers carrying them. Also listed therein are almost all of the PHANTACEA Mythos print and e-publications, including the graphic novel and some of the comic books. 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 many releases from Phantacea Publications. As for the Whole Earth (other than the Hidden Continent of Sedon's Head, at least as far as I can say and always assuming it's still around in what be its 61st century), well, 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. Of course you can always email or send me 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. Just be aware that I can only accept certified cheques or money orders. Plus, I'll have to charge an additional 12% to cover Canadian and provincial goods and sales taxes as well as Canada Post rates for shipping. I do use bubble mailers, though. Top of Page - Upwards - Downwards - Fresh Graphics - Bottom of Page Ordering Lynx |
||
Jim McPherson's Phantacea Mythos Online
Double-click to open a separate window with a different banner |
||
Autumn 2014Anheroic Fantasy featuring Jim McPherson's PHANTACEA Mythos Story selections, synopses, commentaries & web-features written by Jim McPherson Collages, photographs, scanning and web-design by Jim McPherson Credits for additional artwork ascribed in mouse-over text Click here for lynx to the latest instalments of www.phantacea.com, pHantaBlog, Jim McPherson's Travels, pHantacea on pHacebook and google.Phantacea+ site |
PHANTACEALatest Illustrated Essay: "Cataclysm Catalyst" Latest Writer's Rant: “pHantaSpam” Updated Image Map: "Sedon's Head" Serendipity Now: "Janna Yataglands" Newest Web Gallery: "pHanta-pHlickr" Travels Website: "Newest Web Gallery" Featured Story: "He fell out of the sky" |
Anheroic Fantasy since 1977
Download both 2-page PDFs here © copyright Jim McPherson (Phantacea Publications) |
| pH-Webworld's Welcoming Page | Internal Search Engine | Main Menu | Online PHANTACEA Primer | Ongoing PHANTACEA Features | pHantaBlog | Information for ordering by credit card | Information for ordering by certified cheque or money order | Serial Synopses | Contact | pH-Webworld Miscellanea | Lynx to additional websites featuring Jim McPherson's PHANTACEA Mythos | Bottom of Page Lynx | |
||
Top of Page - Page Contents - Downwards - Fresh Graphics - Bottom of Page Ordering Lynx |
||
Oversized Graphics| pHanta-pHlickr Banner | - Double-click images to enlarge - |
||
Phantacea pHits pHlickr pHerfectly
Photographs, design, text and connections provided by Jim McPherson, the creator/writer of the Phantacea Mythos, shots in banner taken during June 2014 while in Carcassonne, London, Versailles, Narbonne and Lyon respectively; hit here for lynx to galleries or here for pHantaBlog debut of banner - Double-click to enlarge - |
||
Top of Page - Page Contents - Downwards - Fresh Graphics - Bottom of Page Ordering Lynx |
||
Background figures for back cover
The Sun (Helios), All of Incain, the Moon (Mnemosyne), Order (Thunder & Lightning Lord Yajur), Doc Defiance, Mik Starrus, Mr No Name and Miracle Memory humanized by Strife Figures by Ricardo Sandoval, 2014 |
Promotional Graphic for finale of 'Launch 1980' story cycle
Text reads: 'Launch 1980 - This is how they should have ended - Coming Soon - Helios on the Moon - Finally a fitting finale to the PHANTACEA comic book series' Artwork for front cover of Promo prepared by Jim McPherson, the creator/writer of the Phantacea Mythos, 2014 - Double-click to enlarge - |
Tentative front cover of new full-length novel
Excerpts from the novel link from here; Artwork by Ricardo Sandoval, 2014 |
Top of Page - Page Contents - Downwards - Fresh Graphics - Bottom of Page Ordering Lynx |
||
Original promo for new novel
Mock-up prepared by Jim McPherson, 2012, using artwork by Richard Sandoval, 1978 |
Mock-up for wraparound cover of new novel
The figures on the front cover are Helios (Richard Sandoval, 1978), All of Incain (from Web) and Lord Order (Richard Sandoval, 1978); the Earth and the UNES Liberty are in background; note: Helios is supposed to be left-handed; Visible on the back cover are Doc Defiance (Gene Day, 1980), the Indescribable Mr No Name and Ginny the Gynosphinx, later All of Incain (from Web); In upper corners of back cover are figures representing the Sun (Helios) and the Moon (Selene, in pHanta-pHact Mnemosyne); they're from the Louvre relief of Mithras ( in pHanta-pHact Chrysaor Attis) slaying the Bull (in pHanta-pHact Plathon) via the Web - Double-click to enlarge - |
Inspirational pH-3 front cover, 1978
Front cover for Phantacea Three; artwork by Richard Sandoval, 1978 |
Top of Page - Page Contents - Downwards - Fresh Graphics - Bottom of Page Ordering Lynx |
||
|
||
Top of Page - Oversized Graphics - Upwards - Downwards - Bottom of Page Ordering Lynx |
||
|
||
Top of Page - Oversized Graphics - Upwards - Downwards - Bottom of Page Ordering Lynx |
||
The Phantacea Comic Book Series
Banner prepared for pHantaBlog by Jim McPherson, the creator/writer of the Phantacea Mythos; art for front cover of pHz1 #1, flip cover of pH-3, and front cover of pH-4 by Ian Bateson, 1985, 1978 & 1979; front cover of pH-5 designed and drawn by Verne Andrusiek, coloured by Ian Bateson, 1980; front cover of pH-Rev 1 by Ian Bateson, touch up by Chris Chuckry, 2012/13; The main webpage for the Phantacea Comic Books is here; the epic 'Launch 1980' fantasy trilogy presents Jim McPherson's novelization of the comic books; excerpts from - Double-click to enlarge - |
||
Top of Page - Oversized Graphics - Upwards - Downwards - Bottom of Page Ordering Lynx |
||
|
||
Top of Page - Oversized Graphics - Upwards - Downwards - Bottom of Page Ordering Lynx
|
Want to purchase any of the remaining print-publications featuring Jim McPherson's PHANTACEA Mythos? Here's how ==>
Interested in having any of the PHANTACEA comic books scanned in and e-mailed to you for only $10.00 an issue? Here's a ditto ==> Want to browse? There's over fifteen years, and counting, of Anheroic Fantasy out here in pH-Webworld. Here's my suggestion on how best to start doing so ==> Artwork, especially artwork from Phantacea Publications(James H McPherson, Publisher), is as attributed in the mouse-over. Unless otherwise noted everything else is designed, composed, photographed and/or scanned in by Jim McPherson I appreciate your interest in the PHANTACEA Mythos online and welcome any comments you might have as to what you like, do not like and/or would like to see in future instalments of 'pH-Webworld'. Jim McPherson |
He fell from the skyShe made him more alive than ever
Wildly divergent allies on both sides of the Whole Earth – and the Moon above – strive to resist the will-sapping might of demon-devils. Yet even the forever Smiling Fiend, faced with the rejuvenated Vampire Queen of the Dead and her slavish, devil-slaying soldier, may come to regret seeking to destroy the Cosmic Express. From the creator/writer of the Phantacea Mythos and amazing illustrators such as Dave Sim (Cerebus the Aardvark) and Verne Andru (420) comes bravura storytelling and groundbreaking artwork gleaned from the pages of Phantacea One to Seven. -- back cover blurb from |
![[Logo for PHANTACEA on the Web, done on Photoshop by Jim McPherson, Year 2002]](graphicimages/onwebskysand1.gif)
Top of Page - Page Contents - Upwards - Downwards - Bottom of Page Lynx
|
Top of Page - Page Contents - Upwards - Downwards - Bottom of Page Lynx
Phantacea Publications in Print- The 'Launch 1980' story cycle - 'The Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories' Fantasy Trilogy - The '1000 Days' Mini-Novels - The phantacea Graphic Novels - |
||
The 'Launch 1980' Story Cycle |
||
The War of the Apocalyptics
Published in 2009; main webpage is here; ordering lynx are here; |
Nuclear Dragons
Published in 2013; main webpage is here; ordering lynx are here; |
Helios on the Moon
Published in 2014; main webpage is here; ordering lynx are here; |
The 'Launch 1980' story cycle comprises three complete, multi-character mosaic novels, |
||
Top of Page Search Engine - pHantaPubs in Print - Page Highlights - Upwards - Downwards - Fresh Graphics - Bottom of Page Ordering Lynx |
||
'The Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories' Epic Fantasy |
||
Feeling Theocidal
Published in 2008; main webpage is here; ordering lynx are here |
The 1000 Days of Disbelief
Published as three mini-novels, 2010/11; main webpage is here; ordering lynx for individual mini-novels are here |
Goddess Gambit
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 ... |
||
Top of Page Search Engine - pHantaPubs in Print - Page Highlights - Upwards - Downwards - Fresh Graphics - Bottom of Page Ordering Lynx |
||
The '1000 Days' Mini-Novels |
||
The Death's Head Hellion- Sedonplay -
Published in 2010; main web presence is here; Character Companion starts here; ordering lynx are here; |
Contagion Collectors- Sedon Plague -
Published in 2010; main web presence is here; Character Companion starts here; ordering lynx are here; |
Janna Fangfingers- Sedon Purge -
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. |
||
Top of Page Search Engine - pHantaPubs in Print - Page Highlights - Upwards - Downwards - Fresh Graphics - Bottom of Page Ordering Lynx |
||
phantacea Graphic Novels |
||
Forever and Forty Days- The Genesis of Phantacea -
Published in 1990; main webpage is here; ordering lynx are here |
The Damnation Brigade- Phantacea Revisited 1 -
Published in 2013; main webpage is here; ordering lynx are here |
Cataclysm Catalyst- Phantacea Revisited 2 -
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! |
||
Top of Page - Page Contents - Upwards - Downwards - Bottom of Page Lynx
Webpage last updated: Autumn 2014There may be no cure for aphantasia (defined as 'having a blind or absent mind's eye') but there certainly is for aphantacea ('a'='without', like the 'an' in 'anheroic') Ordering Information for PHANTACEA Mythos comic books, graphic novels, standalone novels, mini-novels and e-books
|
