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Celebrating Forty Plus Years of the Phantacea Mythos

- Phantacea One, in September 1977, marked the first appearance of Jim McPherson's Phantacea Mythos in print -

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First Phantacea Ever

Phantacea One, artwork by Dave Sim, 1977

Published in September 1977, Phantacea One was the first time Jim McPherson's Phantacea Mythos appeared in print.

The oversized comic book, with 32-pages of artwork by Dave Sim months before Cerebus the Aardvark, is now available from Phantacea Publications for the Collectors Price of $25.00 plus shipping

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Forty years after pH-1 started Phantacea Phase One "Hidden Headgames" carries on Phantacea Phase Two

Original promo for Hidden Headgames gone green, prepared by Jim McPherson, 2017

Phase One was designed to comprise seven magazine-sized issues of the original Phantacea comic book series. Only six issues were published between #1 and #6 in 1980. It wasn't until the 2014 release of "Helios on the Moon" that Phase One was finally finished.

"Decimation Damnation" marked the first publication in the Phase Two revival. Games overlaps both phases.

"Hidden Headgames", three intertwined novellas featuring characters who have previously appeared in the two equally epic Phantacea Phase One trilogies, is now available for ordering directly from the publisher

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Latest Phantacea

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

Double-click to open a new window containing Games splendid wraparound cover collage

More on the cover here and here. Games' dedicated webpage is here

Hidden Headgames
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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

Decimation Damnation front cover, collage prepared by Jim McPherson, 2017

Mini-novel published in 2016; main webpage is here; ordering lynx are here;

Hidden Headgames

Hidden Headgames front cover, collage prepared by Jim McPherson, 2017

Collection of three intertwined novellas published in 2017; main webpage is here; ordering lynx are here;

Daemonic Desperation

Daemonic Desperation cover mockup, collage prepared by Jim McPherson, 2016

Tentative cover for Dem-Des; will probably be changed before it's published; scheduled to be released in 2018;
The Phantacea Phase Two revival 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 long running, but 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; ordering lynx for individual mini-novels are 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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pH-Webworld

Jim McPherson's Phantacea Mythos

- Exclusively available from Phantacea Publications -

Two of Jim McPherson's Phantacea business cards

Updated versions of two of Jim McPherson's early business cards for phantacea; the Hidden Headworld is as per the image map here whereas the heady pareidolia of a late 1920s, Giza Plateau parking lot near the Egyptian Sphinx is as per here

Winter 2017/18

Anheroic 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

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Anheroic Fantasy since 1977

Front and back covers for Hidden Headgames, collages prepared by Jim McPherson, 2017

Original versions of the front and back covers for "Hidden Headgames", three intertwined novellas featuring Jim McPherson's Phantacea Mythos published to mark its fortieth anniversary in print

Cover collages by Jim McPherson, 2017. Details of the artwork that went into it can be found on the Phantacea Publications website.

Both images double-click here.

© copyright Jim McPherson (Phantacea Publications)

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Phantacea Phase Two Oversized Sizzlers

- Just in case you suffer from aphantasia and your Mind's Eye's consequently AWOL -

| Wraparound collage cover for "Hidden Headgames" | Internal collage for 'The Forgettable Fiend' and Daemonic Royalty | Internal collages and Pyrame's Progress rollover | Green Background Images for 'Acquiring Nihila' | 'Wilderwitch's Babies' background image | 'Dec-Dam' Came in 2016 | Rollover teasers | 'Dest-Dam' Coming in 2018 | Witch Babs Promotional collages | Formerly Sizzling | pH-logos |

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Front Cover for "Hidden Headgames"

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

Two shots of the Northern Lights, Freespirit Scylla, Saurlord, the Fiend, Brainrock lake, Tibetan Death God, Hieronymous Bosch's Highchair of Hell come together of for Games' front cover. Many more details here

Cover Collages for "Hidden Headgames"

Two versions of the wraparound cover for Hidden Headgames, collages prepared by Jim McPherson, 2017

B/w and colour wraparound cover collages for "Hidden Headgames". Its main webpage is here.

Back Cover for "Hidden Headgames"

Back cover for Hidden Headgames, prepared by Jim McPherson, 2017

The transparent Lethal Lily graphic tops Games' back cover. In addition to the double-click, the complete text can be read here and here.
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The Forgettable Fiend Smiles

Kabuki oni representing Smiler, image taken from Web

Actually he's always smiling. Which is part of the reason why he's often addressed as Smiler. Being a fully fused demon-devil, the only one in existence, he is something of fiend, however; hence the Smiling Fiend

The Forgettable Fiend Rollover

Interior collage for

Interior collage that appears at the top of the Auctorial Preamble pages in "Hidden Headgames" couple with the colour version of same

King Sodom's Queen Gomorrah

Garden lily with Lethal Lily in centre, collage prepared by Jim McPherson, 2017

Smiler claims he's a double being, one part Master Deva, a third of Thrygragos Sedon's first born no less, and the other part none other than Daemonicus, whom said Sedon believed he'd destroyed more than two hundred years before the Genesea.

Lovely, but lethal, Lily believes she's the Demon Queen to Smiler's King Daemonicus. She's probably right about that, too.
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"Hidden Headgames" Internal Collage

Internal collage prepared by Jim McPherson, 2017

Double-click for larger version of the Pyrame's Progress promo next door; among other places throughout pH-Webworld, the Siqueiros Nihila, albeit as Harmony, the self-proclaimed Unity of Panharmonium, has long been seen on the Places Peculiar page

The Nihila-figure in the Northern Lights tops this collage and its colour version two columns over. Verne Andru's version of Nihila is beside it. Toothy Teoti (Tenochtitlan) is the bat below. His mother (Tsishah Twilight), wearing her demon (Shahiyeda Sunrise), is beneath him to the left, his right.

Pyrame, in her silver-haired, usual seeming is to his right and the Siqueiros Nihila is between them. The Pauper Priestess, as she'd also known is blowing on a globe.

The mom and daughter figures on top of each behind the subtitle, 'Acquiring Nihila', could well be Sorciere and the Shah-demon as they were during the pH-Webworld serials set in 19/5938.

The collection's overall title is along the graphic's right side (our left). The crimson crystal skull behind it might belong to Janna Fangfingers or a Rakshas demon, both of which are mentioned in the final novella, if not before.

Then again, it might represent the real Xibalba, not Smiler's Reilly Haddeus in Fangers. Xibalba isn't just the name of the Mayan underground in the Phantacea Mythos. It's also the name of someone's equally Summoning-Aged twin brother.

"Pyrame's Progress" Rollover

Identical b/w transparent collages except the second is entitled Pyrame's Progress, prepared by Jim McPherson, 2017

Pyrame's 'true' form is of a sheathe-clad, otherwise topless woman with a tetrahedral head. Each of its upper three sides features a solitary eye just like on the back of the American dollar bill.

Next to her is a frog mask used to represent Aortic Amphitrite (Lady Lemurian), Lakshmi of Lemuria's mother. (Lakshmi was the troublesome <<boo-hiss>> teen who so disgraced the finale of War-Pox and apparently chickened out when she was due to appear at her wedding announcement at the end of Dec-Dam.)

Beneath her is the gaping maw of a saltwater crocodile. In part it's there one of the forms Lethal Lily takes on in Games is that of a winged alligator. More anatomically correctly All of Incain shape-shifts into an actual crock howsoever briefly in one of the novellas.

The three-eye demon mask, who could be Trawl the Taskmaster, is topped by a scene from Pilgrim's Progress wherein Christian takes on Apollyon the Destroyer. Known as Unholy Abaddon in the Phantacea Mythos, he's who pinned Datong Harmonia to a slab of Brainrock near the end of Contagion.

Baaloch Hellblob (Sinistral Sloth) is next along, whereupon come a couple of representations of Devil Death (Yama Nergal) and/or his radioactive Inglorious Dead. The ghostly form could be one of them, or another representation of Primeval Lilith, whereas the other disembodied eye might be Pyrame's, Baaloch's purloined Evil Eye, or possibly one of APM All-Eyes' Little Angels.

(APM is one of Bodiless Byron's Secondary Nucleoids. In the absence of Vayu Maelstrom, who's still lost on the Outer Earth during "The Forgettable Fiend", she comes into play as such in a couple of the collection's novellas.)

Another Internal Collage

Colour version of an internal collage wthout Headgames text

Double-click for full colour version of the graphic in the first column in this row as well as the first column in the next one down; the bat, his mom and the crimson skull were taken from the otherwise never used cover for 'Tsishah's Twilight'

Graphics in this row also double-click here, here, here and here, among other places
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"Acquiring Nihila" Rollover

Two colour versions of black and white interior graphics prepared for Hidden Headgames by Jim McPherson, 2017

Colour versions of unused title pages for one of the three intertwined novellas collected in "Hidden Headgames"; there's plenty more on the novella here and here

Large Version of Green Page and Panel Background

The full graphic used in the green page and panel backgrounds for Hidden Headgames, prepared by Jim McPherson, 2017

Two of the images that went into this background image are shots of the Northern Lights, which in the Phantacea Mythos, has long been associated with Nihila's precursor, the incomparable Harmony, the original and thus far lone Unity of Panharmonium

Green Page and Panel Background

Two images used for page and panel backgrounds for Hidden Headgames prepared by Jim McPherson, 2017

Representations of Freespirit Nihila, Nihila Nereid and Bosch's Highchair of Hell taken from the front cover of "Hidden Headgames"
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Wilderwitch's Babies

Background image using the same sunset featured on DecDam's cover, coupled with the Witch Babs promo, both prepared by Jim McPherson, 2016

The open-ended saga begins on Labour Day, 2016, even though the Witch actually gives birth on Harmony's Feast Day in 5981 Year of the Dome. Dreams she does, anyhow.
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Final print cover

Final print cover for Decimation Damnation, collage by Jim McPherson, 2016

Cover collage prepared by Jim McPherson, 2016

Wilderwitch goes into labour on Labour Day, 2016

Announcement for DecDam publication

Actually she goes into labour on Harmony's Feast Day, 5980. Rather, possibly because Phantast Thanatos has been decathonitized, she dreams she does.

"Decimation Damnation", the first mini-novel in the open-ended saga of 'Wilderwitch's Babies' became available for ordering on Labour Day, 2016.

Cover for digital edition

Final digital cover for Decimation Damnation, collage by Jim McPherson, 2016

Moai (stone gnomes) not polarized for e-pub cover collage

Decimation Damnation

 
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Phantacea Revisited 1 & 2

Covers for the Phantacea Revisited graphic novels

Collecting the complete comic book storylines for the Damnation Brigade (pH 2-5) and the Soldier's Saga (pH 1-7)

The Damnation Brigade

<< Front covers for the graphic novel double-click here and here >>

Phantacea Phase One

Both sides of a PDF prepared by Jim McPherson, 2014, to mark the culmination of the Launch 1980 story cycle

Finally a fitting finale to the Phantacea comic book series and the 'Launch 1980' novels

Cataclysm Catalyst

<< Enlarged versions of the covers for HelMoon are here and here. The Launch promo is here. Download the full-sized, 2-page PDF here >>

Phantacea Phase Two

Print and epub covers for Decimation Damnation, cover collages by Jim McPherson, 2016

At long last the next phase of the Phantacea Mythos begins with "Decimation Damnation", the first mini-novel extracted from the open-ended saga of "Wilderwitch's Babies"

<< Print and digital covers double-click here and here >>
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Dec-Dam's intended front cover

Original front cover intended for Decimation Damnation, now more likely to be used in a digital edition, prepared by Jim McPherson, 2016

For more on the 'degree of blackness' issue that prevented this collage from becoming the front cover of the print edition see here.

Image will likely be used for the e-pub version of the mini-novel.

Wilderwitch's Babies

Wilderwitch's Babies promo collage, prepared by Jim McPherson, 2016

The open-ended saga of "Wilderwitch's Babies" begins with "Decimation Damnation" and continues with "Destination Damnation".

Jim McPherson, the creator/writer of the Phantacea Mythos, took many of the shots that went into this promotional collage.

Details regarding most them can be found in the graphics section on Phantacea Publications' Witch Babs page

Dec-Dam's back cover

Back cover for Decimation Damnation, prepared by Jim McPherson, 2016

Back cover text can be found here; more on the Brainrock Raven image here; that's a Vancouver BC sunset and, no, the mini-novel is not entitled 'Sunset for Sundown'

(Which really isn't a spoiler. Honest.)

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Destination Damnation

- Wilderwitch's Babies 2 -

Rough draft of possible cover for Destination Damnation

Wilderwitch is supposed to be a face-dancer. That doesn't necessarily mean her face is constantly dancing, however. Nor does this cover mock-up being here mean it's going to appear anywhere else, in print or for a digital edition. Certainly not with the 'Abandon All Hope' Halloween ornament, that is for certain.

Back cover text reads: "And then there were none ... in the Weirdom of Cabalarkon. So where did they go? Precisely." More on the images that went into this collage are here, here and here. The revenant peaking out beneath the young dancer's arms is as per here.

The Italian phrase used in the upcoming mini-novel, "Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate", literally translates as "All hope abandon, ye who enter". One guess as to where here is on the Hidden Headworld.

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Previous Oversized Sizzlers

| 'Hel-Moon' Print Cover |'Hel-Moon' Digital Cover | Full-Sized Promo for 'Launch 1980' Story Cycle | pHanta-pHlickr Banner |"Helios on the Moon" Promo and Tentative Covers | "Helios on the Moon" Cover Mock-ups | Cataclysm Catalyst | Nuclear Dragons | Phantacea Comics Banner | Nuclear Mockery |
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Helios on the Moon

- 2014 Print Edition -

Covers for Helios on Moon print edition, artwork by Ricardo Sandoval, 2014

Artwork by Ricardo Sandoval, 2014; back cover text is here; back cover characters, unobscured, are here; excerpts from the novel are here; additional lynx re 'Hel-Moon' are here; ordering lynx are here and here
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Helios on the Moon

- Digital Edition -

Helios on the Moon digital cover, artwork by Ricardo Sandoval, 2014

Artwork by Ricardo Sandoval, 2014; back cover text is here; back cover characters, unobscured, are here; excerpts from the novel are here; additional lynx re 'Hel-Moon' are here; ordering lynx are here and here

Helios on the Moon

 
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Promo for the 'Launch 1980' story cycles

- Full-Sized Version -

Full-sized promotional collage to mark the completion of the Launch 1980 story cycle, prepared by Jim McPherson, 2014

The half-sized version of this promo double-clicks here; covers and additional lynx for the two Phantacea Revisited graphic novels depicted are here; covers and additional lynx for the three books in the story cycle are here; additional lynx and information re the 'Launch 1980' story cycle are here; used in a promotional PDF that can be downloaded here

The War of the Apocalyptics
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pH-Webworld

Purpa superimposed over a wooden labrys, collage prepared by Jim McPherson, 2015

phantacea logo featuring a purpa demon-dagger and a wooden labrys

Graphic double-clicks below; panel double-click is a character collage of old King Cold, who makes highly significant, albeit hardly unexpected, contributions to Hel-Moon's endgame

Climactic Entry

Digitally altered front cover for "Helios on the Moon", used in a promotional PDF that can be downloaded here

Artwork by Ricardo Sandoval, 2014; unadulterated versions here and here, among many another web-place

Sun-Moon Kissing

Sun-moon-kissing woodcut shot in Mexico by Jim McPherson, 2012

Jim McPherson shot this this large woodcut in the Yucatan ca 2012; intended to represent the Dual Entities (Helios = Sol; Mnemosyne = Luna) it appears on the back cover of 'Hel-Moon' as well as forms the basis for this phantacea logo
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Purpa superimposed over a wooden labrys, collage prepared by Jim McPherson, 2015

"Feeling Theocidal", "The War of the Apocalyptics", "The Death's Head Hellion", "Contagion Collectors" , "Janna Fangfingers", "Goddess Gambit", "Phantacea Revisited 1: The Damnation Brigade", "Nuclear Dragons", "Phantacea Revisited 2: Cataclysm Catalyst", "Helios on the Moon", "Decimation Damnation" and "Hidden Headgames" are available for ordering online by debit and/or credit card as well from the publisher by certified cheque and/or money orders

Digital PDFs of all the novels, mini-novels, trade paperbacks and the thus far solitary collection of novellas are available from www.phantacea.com starting here.

Want to purchase any of the remaining print-publications featuring Jim McPherson's PHANTACEA Mythos including the graphic novel, "Forever & 40 Days — The Genesis of phantacea", and the first four issues of the comic book series? Here's how ==>

Front of Novels2GraphicNovels PDF prepared by Jim McPherson, 2014

Want to browse? There's nearly twenty 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
Creator, Writer, Web Designer,
[jmcp@phantacea.com]

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Miracle Memory's Dilemma has a Name ... Freespirit Nihila

Plus, the onetime Unity of Balance or Harmony was a self-pronounced free spirit these days; determined to remain so as well. To top it off, ex-Balance really, really, wanted to embrace her new name for herself – as opposed to the bordering on defamatory Nemesis designation others assigned her when being harmonious wasn’t working very well – and annihilate her triplet-brother, Lord Order.
She wanted his head, colloquially speaking, for abandoning her to their equally hated, though apparently unreachable, at least for the time being, brood brother Abe Chaos, Unholy Abaddon, a week before her traditional, Autumnal Equinox, feast day in 5492. That, howsoever-ironically, she sort of got his head – half-got it anyhow, both literally speaking and severed from his shoulders – accounted for the immediate awkwardness of the moment.
Said awkwardness worked both ways. Since annihilating Yajur would consequently kill, if not precisely annihilate, her already headless, Herr Hel of a Heliosophos, the Female Entity was presented with a distinct dilemma. Nihila was good to keep her whole again for a while … but might it not be time to make use of Pyrame Silverstar again? Generally speaking she was paper bags more docile, even compliant, than the always wilful, but never before quite so challenging, ex-Unity.
She decided it was. Was a shame she couldn’t find her. Or was it even worse … make that, for Pyrame, terminal? She was decathonitized. Had the mandroid muck she’d left her subsided within last week abolished her, the same as it had the Celestial Superior – her spirit self – in 5938? Further to that, would Nihila, so transparently locked into her own avenging angel agenda, even let her far-look for Pyrame?

More pertinently, she did, she found her, would Nihila let her ditch her?

-- from "Acquiring Nihila", the third and final intertwined novella collected in "Hidden Headgames"; now available from Phantacea Publications
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Pricelist for pHant products at cons, 2014Credits for pH-Rev2, prepared by Jim McPHerson, 2013Page and Panel Backgrounds

The blue and yellow background images found on this page are variations of the front cover for "Phantacea Revisited 1: The Damnation Brigade". A graphic novel compiling artwork from Phantacea 1-5, Phantacea Phase One #s 1 & 2 (unpublished), PRv1:DB came out in the Spring of 2013.

It was followed a year later with, you guessed it, "Phantacea Revisited 2: Cataclysm Catalyst". Most of the page backgrounds prepared from 'Kitty-Clysm' material can be seen over on the Phantacea Publications website, particularly Kitty's main page here.

PRV2:CC went one full issue later (pH-6) than PRv1:DB. It also included, for the first time ever in print, part of the never-finished finale to the first four storylines presented during what was only supposed to be the first phase of the Phantacea comic book series. The credits are listed in the right of this panel.

Both the red and pink background images on this page are variations of 'Rendering Reddening', a collage prepared out of some of the Vetala artwork Verne Andru has done over the years for phantacea; an enlargement of original can be found here; Verne also provided the bulk of the artwork for PRV2:CC.

Notes for some of the other background collages found on this page be found (and seen) here, here and here; as for why Durer's 4 Horsemen are reminiscent of Thrygragos Lazareme and his firstborn Unities, that's here

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