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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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| Forever & 40 Days - the Genesis of PHANTACEA | The Moloch Manoeuvres | Mythos Poster | The War of the Apocalyptics | The Trigregos Gambit | Decimation Damnation | Tsishah's Twilight |
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FOREVER & 40 DAYS

-- The Genesis of PHANTACEA --

[Cover of 'pH4-Ever & 40']

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First published in May 1990, this oversized Graphic Novel contains:

  • an introduction by the author, Jim McPherson;
  • a series of stories fully illustrated by Ian Fry, in his first series of work for comics
  • said stories feature some of the classic confrontations between the Heliosophos Entity and the Moloch Sedon, including the latter's creation;
  • a PHANTACEA variation on the Biblical Book of Genesis;
  • information about the Golden Age Patriarchs of Humankind; and
  • a short story set in 1986 that may or may not be part of the PHANTACEA Mythos.

Most of the the stories recounted in 'pH4-Ever & 40' are retold in the 'Heliodyssey' novels currently being serialized in PHANTACEA on the Web. As such, 'pH4-Ever & 40' makes a useful, perhaps even invaluable, companion to the serials appearing on the Web. And, unlike a couple of the PHANTACEA Comic Books, it is still available.

A section-by-section overview of 'pH4-Ever & 40' can be found here.

© copyright Jim McPherson
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Mythos logo, prepared on PHOTOSHOP by Jim McPherson, 2004

-- Giveaway Poster for Phantacea Publications, 2004 --

Poster entitled Mythos, the text reads: "Three-quarters of a century ago the Egyptian Air Force photographed the Giza Plateau. That photo is now in the Cairo Museum. Just above the inset photo of the Sphinx is an obvious head. Does it point to the entrance way to a Hidden Continent? Is that entrance way to be found through a door between the legs of the Sphinx? It is in the PHANTACEA Mythos."

I intended this graphic to become a giveaway poster for PHANTACEA. Never did print it up, though.

The primary text section reads as follows:

Three-quarters of a century ago the Egyptian Air Force photographed the Giza Plateau. That photo is now in the Cairo Museum. Just above the inset photo of the Sphinx is an obvious head.

Does it point to the entrance way to a Hidden Continent? Is that entrance way to be found through a door between the legs of the Sphinx?

It is in the PHANTACEA Mythos!

The main reference is to a pair of long-serving, inter-connected webpages entitled: Sedon's Head: Inspiration or Destination?

© copyright Jim McPherson, 2005
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The Launching of the Cosmic Express

Potential Dust Covers for

| "The War of the Apocalyptics" | "The Trigregos Gambit" |

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


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In terms of publishing, the comic books of the late 70s came first of course. The graphic novel came out in 1990. Although I wrote a bunch of other material throughout the 80s and early 90s, mostly proposals for teleplays and short stories, some of which featured characters from the PHANTACEA Mythos, it wasn't until 1996 that I began web-publishing.

One of the first novels I serialized on the Web was: 'The War of the Apocalyptics'. I revised the serialized version in 2003; sent it out to some publishers and non-fee-charging literary agents via the Internet, and there it still languishes, on a variety of slush piles. This is the latest dustcover I've prepared for it. A different potential front cover can be found elsewhere.

Text at the top of the front cover reads:

"From the creator of the PHANTACEA Mythos comes Fallen Angel Devils, comes unrelenting Action, comes the Damnation Brigade, comes ..."

Text on the back cover reads:

"Launching 1980

"The ten members of the Damnation Brigade survived a quarter century in Limbo. Until their minds were separated from their bodies in 1955, they were the last of the Outer Earth's supranormals.

"Plague, Murder, War and Disaster, they're Apocalyptics. They're also immortal devils. Murder's pregnant. She'll give birth on the Inner Earth if D-Brig doesn't stop her."

The 'Children! It's a trick, an illusion. We're under attack!'; bit in the collage on the front cover is a direct quote from pH-5. The 'Damnation! Stop this farce!' bit on the back cover is something Cyborg Cerebrus says in pH-4.

As for the images that went into the two collages, some of them are from the comic books. Most of the rest come from photos I've snapped or postcards I've bought over the years during various Travels in my Pants. Scanned-in versions of some of them are out here on the Web somewhere and there's a note on the 1987A background image below.

The primary webpage for the revised version of this novel can be found here whereas the introductory webpage for the serialized version can be found here.


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


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As per here, an earlier version of 'The Trigregos Gambit' has also been serialized previously. I revised the serialized version in 2005. If I decide to start self-publishing the PHANTACEA Mythos, I'll likely begin with this one because, although it's by far the most violent of all my novels, I can justify going anywhere on the timeline-compass for its follow-up print publication: timewise either direction sideways, timewise before, 1938,1960, or timewise after.

This is the latest dustcover I've prepared for it. Text at the top of the front cover reads:

"'For the Dead to thrive, the Living must die!' So proclaims Nergal Vetala, the Blood Queen of Hadd."

Text on the back cover reads:

"Launching 5980

"She's the lone devic vampire. For 35 years she has been unable to prevent the encroachment of the Living on her realm, the Land of the Ambulatory Dead.

"Then her soldier falls out of the sky and she's back in the pink. As in arterial. She still isn't satisfied.

"Too bad for not just her, everyone who plays a Trigregos Gambit loses."

The 'Mercy is a Capital Offense' bit on the front cover is the rest of the proclamation the Vampire Queen psychically issues to her remainingly faithful adherents once she returns to Hadd after 35 years in the Forbidden Forest of her litter sister, Kala Tal. Most of those she thereby contacts are occupied, and animated, by Vetalazurs, her strictly Spirit Being offspring by many a male devil. Vetala eats her young.

As for the images that went into the two covers, the back cover Vetala (in the moon-mirror) is from the front cover of pH-5. Ian Bateson did the colour over Verne Andru's pencils and inks. The front cover Vetala is by Ian Fry, the artist who drew the graphic novel: "Forever & 40 Days - the Genesis of PHANTACEA". It was done circa 1990. The graphic novel is still available.

With the exception of the Pictish Warrior on the front cover, which I scanned in from a postcard I bought some time ago during one of my occasional Travels in my Pants overseas (or over lots of land in the Americas). I plucked the rest of the images used from the Web.

Those who have read '4-Ever&40' might find it interesting that the crimson corona effect circling the moon-mirror and, indeed, the starry background of the entire dust cover, are both digitally dicked pictures of Supernova 1987A. Besides the fact they look so good, I plucked them because, in the PHANTACEA Mythos, Supernova 1987A was caused by the Dual Entities when they destroyed the first Weirsystem.

A mini-essay on the Pictish fellow can be found here. The primary webpage for the revised version of this novel can be found here whereas the introductory webpage for the serialized version of 'Gambit' can be found here.

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Wilderwitch's Babies - Books 1 & 2

Potential Dust Covers for

| "Decimation Damnation" | "Tsishah's Twilight" |

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."

Click on the Dust Cover or click here to take you to more detailed information on this novel.

© copyright Jim McPherson, 2005
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The text at the top of the front cover reads:

"Jim McPherson Decimation Damnation" (Jim McPherson would be me.)

The text at the bottom of the front cover reads:

"The PHANTACEA Mythos continues with 'Wilderwitch's Babies, Part 1'"

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."

The image of the Tuareg type (an apparently white-skinned Trinondev of Weir) was scanned in from a newspaper. The image of the caduceus and the images of the two gargoyles were taken from the Web. All other images are variations on photographs I've snapped or postcards I've bought during various Travels in my Pants.

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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!

All images were googled off the Web. The Dust Cover was thereupon designed and rendered on PHOTOSHOP by Jim McPherson, 2004. Front and back cover text below.

© copyright Jim McPherson, 2005
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The text at the top of the front cover reads:

"Jim McPherson Tsishah's Twilight"
(In case you missed it, Jim McPherson would be me.)

The text at the bottom of the front cover reads:

"The PHANTACEA Mythos continues with 'Wilderwitch's Babies, Part 2'"

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 Shahiyeda. Shah's parents are long dead. Then one of them isn't and Tsishah suddenly finds herself in truly Deep Dreck!"

As of this writing, Winter 2004/5, this novel is not finished. With respect to the titular character, Tsishah Twilight, in 1980, which is when it's set, she's a mother of four. One of the buggers looks to be coming in for a landing on the front cover. As for her demon, Shahiyeda, the way I have it figured she shows up on the front cover twice, as a child and as the over-skin Tsishah's wearing.

The somewhat eerie-looking head above Child-Shah on the front cover might be either her as an adult, assuming she made it that far, or her mother, who definitely did. As for the crystal skulls, they're not there purely for looks. You see, there's this character named Xibalba. He's named after the Mayan Hell. He's a Summoning Child and, well, let's just say he's aptly named.

(By the way, both Tsishah and Shahiyeda will be appearing, as not much more than toddlers, during the course of the 1938 'Heliodyssey' serials. That novel, as you will have realized if you clicked the mother of all lynx above, is called 'The Vampire Variations'. Unfortunately, although it is finished, it's almost as long as the revised version of 'The Moloch Manoeuvres'. I'm still hoping to bring 'Tsishah's Twilight' in at under 500 pages, double-spaced.)

Tsishah was mentioned by name a few times in one or more of the yet-to-be revised serials that comprise the Launch Tetralogy. If she actually made a physical appearance, which she might not have, it was only briefly.

However, with Pyrame Silverstar inside her, she did get it on rather scandalously during the early stages of 'The Weirdness of Cabalarkon' web-serial, upon which part of this novel is based and most of its cast of characters also appeared.

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