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Introductory RemarkspH-Webworld (aka PHANTACEA on the Web) began in 1996. Although I tend to call it Jim McPherson's PHANTACEA Mythos Online these days, it still has two primary purposes. Firstly, it provides a web-presence whereby I can advertise print publications, such as 'Feeling Theocidal' and 'War of the Apocalyptics', as well as back issues of the PHANTACEA Comic Books and Genesis Graphic Novel, that are still available for purchase. Even though phantacea.com covers a fair bit of that role these days, pH-Webworld still contains a great deal of background information. Almost all of it is accessible from here, here and of course here, the very webpage you're currently perusing. Secondly, it gives me an opportunity to serialize chapters and, indeed, entire novels featuring the aforementioned PHANTACEA Mythos. With those serials (cereals or Web Wheaties, as I sometimes refer to them, howsoever lamely) come synopses for chapters that have come and gone. That's a dot-ditto for the few that keep on going and going, which are listed here. Early on I started adding a graphics component. Mostly these consisted of photos I took during various 'Travels in my Pants' (TIMP), many of which can now be found on a different website. In time, though, I developed some small ability of my own when it came to preparing collages and suchlike specific to the PHANTACEA Mythos. There are now dozens, if not hundreds, of these graphics out here in Cyberia. [NOTE: Google.ca supplies what amounts to a pH-Webworld web gallery. Just go to http://www.google.ca/, hit the images link and type in PHANTACEA. Not all of what comes up link to one of my three websites but most do. As for the others, well, for the most part I have no idea why google displays them.] What follows is the start of my own version of a pH-Webworld graphics gallery. |
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2014 Welcoming Table for phantacea's Prime Picture Gallery| 2014: "Cataclysm Catalyst" | 2013: "Nuclear Dragons" | 2013: "Damnation Brigade" | Blog on | Get Busy | 2012: "Goddess Gambit | 2010/11: "The Thousand Days of Disbelief" | 2009: The War of the Apocalyptics" | 2008: "Feeling Theocidal" | Quick Lynx | |
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What might have been, will be for sure in 2014 |
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 Horsmen' 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, will be 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 |
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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 |
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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
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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 |
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No wonder they call themselves the Damnation Brigade
Both Phantacea Revisited graphic noves 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.
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"Goddess Gambit"– Now available from Phantacea Publications –
Thus Ends
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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. |
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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. |
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The phantacea Revisited Graphic Novels| pH-Rev 1 | Prepared Promos for D-Brig Graphic Novel | Additional 'D-Brig' graphics on phantacea.com | pH-Rev 2 | Prepared Promos for Clysm Graphic Novel | Additional 'Catalysm' graphics on phantacea.com | |
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Back from the Dead
The extraordinary story of the Damnation Brigade from the Launching of the Cosmic Express and their consequential re-embodiment on Damnation Island to their ill-fated ics intervention in devil-doing within Subcranial Temporis beneath Sedon's Head |
The Damnation Brigade
Phantacea Revisited 1
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Only to Die Anew
Breathtaking storytelling combined with phenomenal artwork, some of it never seen before in print; almost all of pH-5 available for the first time since 1980 Demon Land v/s Devil Wind; artwork by Ian Bateson, ca 1985; lettering by Fred Armstong; from pHz1 #2 which as never published; more of the same links from here; |
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Interior Artwork Credits for pH-Rev 1
Artists include Dave Sim, Ian Bateson, Verne Andrusiek, Tim Hammell and Vince Marchesano Double-click for more legible enlargement |
No wonder they call themselves the Damnation Brigade
Characters spherized: Wildman Dervish Furie, Old Man Power, Radiant Rainbow Rider and Cyborg Cerebrus Artwork by Ian Bateson, ca 1985, coloured 2012; promo prepared by Jim McPherson, 2012 |
First draft of front cover
Devil Wind (Vayu Maelstrom) seeks to flee the enraged, but only recently re-embodied Damnation Brigade on Damnation Island, 30 November 1980 Artwork entirely by Ian Bateson, 2012; double-click to enlarge |
The Devil and the D-Brig Three The deep blue sea in this case is Sea Goddess (Thalassa D'Angelo) together with her twin Airealist (Aires) and the Untouchable Diver (Yehudi Cohen); Maelstrom has just made off with the Elemental Twins' talismans: her Aqua Ankh or Water Wand and his Aerod Artwork by Ian Bateson, twins and Wilderwitch touch-up by Chris Chuckry, 2012; prepared by Jim McPherson, 2012, double-click is the final front cover |
The Covers Gallery
Covers include pH-3 flip, pH-4 front, pHz1 #1 and pHz1 #2 (previously unpublished) - double-click to enlarge all images in this row - |
pHant Promo 2013
D-Brig Promo with addition of covers for novels making up 'The Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories' epic fantasy Artwork by Bateson, Andru, McPherson and Andru again |
Out of the Grey; Into the Blue
Characters depicted include Cyborg Cerebrus, Raven's Head, Blind Sundown, Sea Goddess, Wilderwitch, Dervish Furie Artwork by Ian Bateson; touch-up by Chris Chuckry, 2013 |
So much for the Shadow Woman
Actually an aspect of her did reappear in the web-serial entitled Year One - After Limbo: PSYCHODRAMAArtwork by Vince Marchesano and crew, 1980 |
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What might have been back then, is for sure in 2014 |
Cataclysm Catalyst
Phantacea Revisited 2As per here, interior 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 - |
Bad Rhad thinks he's won
And maybe he has -- in his fantasy life. Can't say the same thing about his phantacea life; not without giving away the ending Which, come to think about it, is a misleading statement because Kitty Clysm actually ends on the Moon! |
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From comics to novels
Actually the two Phantacea Revisited were novelized before they became graphic novels |
Kitty Card
The (almost) text-free, colourized version of the complete cover for "Cataclysm Catalyst"; artwork by Verne Andru, 2013;
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Artistic Credits for "Cataclysm Catalyst"
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The three mini-novels comprising ..."The Thousand Days of Disbelief"- Double-Click images for enlarged versions in a separate window - |
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| "The Death's Head Hellion" | "Contagion Collectors" | "Janna Fangfingers" | Background Images | Plenty more on phantacea.com | |
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The Death's Head Hellion-- Sedonplay - 4824/25 Year of the Dome --
- The 10 Second Synopsis for Hellion ©Jim McPherson, 2011 |
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Contagion Collectors-- Sedon Plague - 5456-5476 Years of the Dome --
- The 10 Second Synopsis for Contagion ©Jim McPherson, 2011 |
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Janna Fangfingers-- Sedon Purge - YD 5476-5495 --
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Fangers Missing Abyss
Missing Herta Heartthrob, Magnus Minus and Demon Queen Lilith, among a number of others pictured herein, too. More here |
Devils aren't always heroes
More here |
Bosch's Fruit Dancers
More here |
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Graphics Illustrating Aspects of the Launch 1980 Story Cycle| Spooky Jolts of Stellar Similarities | Actual and Potential Cover for
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Spooky Jolts of Stellar Similariities |
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Shot of part of the Helix Nebula that's been nicknamed 'The Eye of God'
The double-click takes you to the same image, albeit meshed with the Sedonic Eye-Mouth For more on the so-called Eye of God, check out Stellar Serendipity |
'The Hand of God', as taken by NASA's Chandra X-ray observatory.
At present, the projected Launch 1980 story cycle contains three novels. They are: For more on the so-called Hand of God check out Stellar Serendipity |
Peter Lynde's Cosmicaptain Starrus and the Hand of Son-Shine, from pH-3
All three novels in the projected Launch 1980 story cycle are based on the comic books and novels previously serialized out here in Cyberia. That said, by the time they attain the status of phantacea Mythos print publications, they may be much different than their predecessors of the same titles. For more of Starrus and Son-Shine check out Stellar Serendipity |
The Mighty Eye-Mouth in the Sky
For more on the Sedonic Eye-Mouth, check out Stellar Serendipity |
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Ian Bateson's original cover for phantacea Phase One #2
Bateson redid this cover from 1985/6, albeit in full colour, for |
War-Pox Covers Rollover
Published and Unpublished Front and Back Covers for
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A sample of Ian Bateson's artwork for PHANTACEA Phase One #2
Although the issue never saw the light of day, photocopies of Bateson's artwork have survived and appear in pH-Webworld |
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War-Pox Graphics |
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Mater Matare, the self-proclaimed Apocalyptic of Death, has four arms and three eyes but she's still phantacea's Medusa
As Mother Murder, she gets much more of a run in War-Pox than she did in Feel Theo. Nonetheless, motherly as she may be, even her own siblings likely wouldn't consider her heroic. As for her devic children, hey, that's why the Byronic Nucleus brought D-Brig to the Inner Earth -- to stop her having any. There are more Medusas here and here |
Collage made up of images suggestive of the Damnation Brigade
D-Brig are the closest thing War-Pox has in terms of heroes. Which isn't surprising since phantacea has been spotlighting Anheroic Fantasy in print since 1977. The double-click is a collage containing images I reckon suggestive of two other members of D-Brig: Blind Sundown and Raven's Head; its main shout is here |
Collage made up of images suggestive of the four Apocalyptics and their two allies
The double-click is a shot of a Kali-type that I took while in India in 2005. It first appeared in the Anheroic Fantasy photo essay and reminds me of what Mater Matare looks like in War-Pox if perhaps not so much so in Feel Theo. |
Wildman Dervish Furie is proof positive that phantacea's heroes are definitely of the anheroic variety
The faun mask, one of a number, that I spotted in Guatemala Antigua was but one of many serendipitous sightings I preserved here. The double-click brings up the back cover for pH-3, artwork by Ian Bateson, 1978.It depicts Sea Goddess's howsoever fleeting victory over the Apocalyptics. |
![[Wooden plate of a wolf-woman suggestive of Wilderwitch and her fearsome soul-self as found on in a vendor's sidewalk display in Montreal, Canada, PHOTO BY JIM MCPHERSON, Year 2000]](graphicimages/Medusas.jpg)
![[Mask of a faun as photographed in Antigua Guatemala by Jim McPherson, Year 2001]](graphicimages/furmask1.jpg)
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The Sedonshem Landing |
As Jordy might say: "Be a goose and have a gander at the full cover. Then order the graphic novel for only $10.00, plus shipping costs!"
Sequence featuring Jordan Tethys from |
"Nuke Weirstar!" |
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The Black Rose of Anarchy
... from pH-3, published in 1978 Returns and remainders of the 1st four issues of the PHANTACEA comic book series can still be ordered for $5.00 an issue, plus shipping costs! |
Sample Artwork from the Comics & Graphic Novel
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Doc Defiance, the Gypsium Man
... from pH-2, published in 1978 Returns and remainders of the 1st four issues of the PHANTACEA comic book series can still be ordered for $5.00 an issue, plus shipping costs! |
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Helios threatening to destroy 'fascistes'
... from pH-3, published in 1978 |
Rhadamanthys Revealed
... inked but never coloured, potential cover for reprint of pH-6 (unpublished) |
Anti-Patriarch Cain raising the Golden Calf
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The Byronhead encounters the Apocalyptic Nucleus
... from pH-5, published in 1980 |
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![[SIDE SHOT OF TWO COLOSSI REMINISCENT OF THE DUAL ENTITIES TAKEN OUTSIDE THE GREAT TEMPLE OF ABU SIMBEL, EGYPT, PHOTO BY JIM MCPHERSON, 2000]](graphicimages/abubig1.jpg)
![[Mask of a faun as photographed in Antigua Guatemala by Jim McPherson, Year 2001]](graphicimages/afriall1.jpg)
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Collages and/or Original Shots that became Page Backgrounds during the first decade of pH-Webworld-- double-click to enlarge panel backgrounds in a separate window -- |
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Super Nova 1987A
Spotted in 1987; referred to in |
Abu Simbel 2000
Original travelogue is here |
Saturna Island, 1991
Background image on this page was derived from this shot |
Brazil 2007
Background image used on this page is here; original is here |
India 2005
Original travelogues link from here |
Egypt 2000
Original travelogues link from here; |
Turkish Cliff Head, 2003
Cliffheads were used a lot on the pHanta-FAQ panels here and here |
pH-Webworld now on Istar.ca
Text reads: Jim McPherson's Phantacea Mythos online BTW, image no longer animates due to online size constraints[NOTE: As per the double-click, pH-Webworld switched to www.phantacea.info ca 2010] |
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Closing CommentsMouse-overs provide details on the graphics. In the case of artwork for the comics and graphic novel, mouse-overs provide the name of the artist. Particularly in the case of some of the collages and potential covers I occasionally incorporate images taken from the web, or scanned in from books, in my library. Virtually everything else reproduced on this page are my own photographs. There are over 60 lynx on this page. Except for those in the masthead, and those that double-click for an enlargement, every one of them opens up a new browser page. That way you can chance a glance at the graphic in its natural setting, pause to read text pertinent to the pix, 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 whenever you close down the last one you're looking at. The easiest way to navigate PHANTACEA on the Web is to start at either the Main Menu page or the Ongoing PHANTACEA Features page. They both have approaching exhaustive lists providing overviews and lynx to the entire website. The Main Main page also has a frame link, which I keep meaning to get rid of, but never get around to doing, because I still find it rather useful, in a redundant sort of way. The 2002-2006 Online Primer Page is here. For what's new this season be a goose and have a gander at the Web Publisher's Commentary. A related website, albeit one focusing more on my travels than on my writings, is here whereas, in case you've somehow missed all the previous lynx to it, www.phantacea.com concentrates on the material I've thus far print-published. Be forewarned, though, there are so many direct quotes from 'Feeling Theocidal' on it you almost don't have to buy the book. (Just kidding. BUY IT NOW!) The same 'BUY IT NOW!' plea now applies to Not without a spoiler warning. Lest I forget, I'm still selling issues 1 to 4 of the PHANTACEA Comic Books as well as the PHANTACEA Graphic Novel. Check out the Ordering Information then email me for instructions on how to load up. Certified cheques or money orders only, please. (BTW, both Feel Theo and War-Pox can also be ordered by credit card.) |
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Webpage Last Updated: Spring 2010There 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
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