pH-Webworld - bypass banners - quick lynx - bottom of page lynx


Search:

Lynx for pHantaBlog RSS: http://phantacea.com/blog/?feed=rss2

This free script provided by
JavaScript Kit

Top of Page - Onwards - Bottom of Page Ordering Lynx

Welcome to pH-Webworld

- Jim McPherson's Phantacea Mythos -- Online since 1996 -

Top of Page Search Engine - Phantacea Publications available in print and digitally - Page Highlights - Bottom of Page Ordering Lynx - More pHantaSites

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

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.

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

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 ...

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 -

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.

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 -

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!

Top of Page - Upwards - Downwards - Bottom of Page Ordering Lynx

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

Spring 2016

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

Click here for lynx to the latest instalments of www.phantacea.com, pHantaBlog, pHanta-pHlickr, pHantacea on pHacebook and google+.Phantacea

Click here for previous Welcoming Page

PHANTACEA

Latest Illustrated Essay: "Decimation Damnation" -- original covers gallery

Latest Writer's Rant: “That's ish'tar, not ee'stir

Updated Image Map: "Medusas I Have Met"

Serendipity Now: "Cabby's Caddy captured in bronze"

Newest Web Gallery: "pHantaBlog Headers"

Travels Website: "Newest Web Gallery"

Featured Story: "Black God -- White Goddess"

Page and Panel Background Images found on this page

Bottom of page ordering lynx

Lynx for pHantaBlog RSS: http://phantacea.com/blog/?feed=rss2

 

Anheroic Fantasy since 1977

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

Download full-sized, 2-page PDF 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 Sizzlers

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

| 'Hel-Moon' Print Cover |'Hel-Moon' Digital Cover | Full-Sized Promo for 'Launch 1980' Story Cycle | Formerly Sizzling | pH-logos |

- Double-click images to enlarge -

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

Top of Page - Page Contents - Downwards - Fresh Graphics - Bottom of Page Ordering Lynx

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

Top of Page - Page Contents - Downwards - Fresh Graphics - Bottom of Page Ordering Lynx

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

Top of Page - Page Contents - Downwards - Fresh Graphics - Bottom of Page Ordering Lynx

Previous Oversized Sizzlers

| 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 |

Top of Page - Page Contents - Downwards - Fresh Graphics - Bottom of Page Ordering Lynx

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


Top of Page - Oversized Graphics - Upwards - Downwards - Bottom of Page Ordering Lynx

Featured story logo

Black God — White Goddess

Saladin was growing huge, immensely huge. His shape was filling the entire hall. Then, abruptly, there was a clap of thunder and he was standing on High Table level, his normal, mostly non-glowing self again. A woman appeared beside him. At least it looked to be a woman. Her clothing made it difficult to tell.

She was cloaked from head to foot in a boxy, snow white burqa, a deliberately all-concealing costume usually only seen in the most fundamentalist areas of the Muslim world beyond the Cathonic Dome. Even her eyes were veiled. Murray squirmed nervously. Sundown tightened his grip.

The chanting began: “HAIL, SALADIN! HAIL, MASTER! ALL HAIL!”

Saladin reached his arm upwards. The sword, the shield, the chain of crimson stones, with its triangular medallion so reminiscent of the pyramidal eye on the back of the American dollar bill, lifted off him. As they vanished as if into the night’s sky, which could be seen through the hall’s glass dome, Star Sedon looking down, he embraced his escort.

In one motion she tore off her unappealing garment and kissed him on the lips. The cheering immediately quelled. Were the people sucking in their collective breath, were they shocked by what they had just seen her do to their reclusive, witch-hating Master, or were they simply stunned by the woman herself? Probably the last.

She was undeniably as statuesque as any female pureblood in the Weirdom.
Broad at the shoulder, tight in the bosom, waist and hips, she was wearing a diaphanous outfit as white as her skin and so clinging it was difficult to tell where the outfit stopped and the skin began.

A white skull-cap covered all of her hair. Two rabbit ears of cloth stretched out of her just-below-knee-length skirt, hid her breasts, and were tied around the back of her neck. That was it, no shoes, leggings, jewellery, makeup, nor any other ornamentation.

She was the perfect compliment to the Master. If he was the black god, she was the white goddess.

The black god’s white goddess was Wilderwitch.

-- from "Decimation Damnation", the initial mini-novel in the open-ended saga of 'Wilderwitch's Babies'; available in mid-2016

Top of Page - Page Contents - Upwards - Downwards - Bottom of Page Lynx

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

- Double-click to enlarge -


Top of Page - Page Contents - Upwards - Downwards - Bottom of Page Lynx

Webpage last updated: Spring 2016

There 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-booksSun-moon-kissing logo first seen on back cover of Helios on the Moon, 2015; photo by Jim McPherson, 2014

Downloadable order form for additional PHANTACEA Mythos Print Publications

Current Web-Publisher's Commentary

Jim McPherson's Worldwide Email Address -- jmcp@phantacea.com

PHANTACEA: The Web Serials

pHantaJim's Weblog


Website last updated: Autumn 2015

Written by: Jim McPherson -- jmcp@phantacea.com
© copyright Jim McPherson (www.phantacea.com)
Phantacea Publications
(James H McPherson, Publisher)
74689 Kitsilano RPO
2768 W Broadway
Vancouver BC V6K 4P4
Canada

Welcoming Page

Prime Picture Gallery

Main Menu


Websites featuring, at least in part, Jim McPherson's PHANTACEA MythosLogo reads Jim McPherson's PHANTACEA on the Web

Phantacea Publications: http://www.phantacea.com

Jim McPherson's PHANTACEA Mythos (pH-Webworld): http://www.phantacea.info

Jim McPherson's Phantacea Blog (pHantaBlog): http://www.phantacea.com/blog

pHantacea on pHacebook: http://www.facebook.com/phantacea

pHantacea on pHlickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/89008792@N06/galleries/

Phantacea Publications on Google-PlusPhantacea logo from 4-Ever & 40

Jim McPherson's pre-2010 Travels: http://members.shaw.ca/jmcptimps

The Wonderful Weather Wizard of Oz's 2011 Travels Site: http://members.shaw.ca/jmcp_oz11/index.htm

Jim McPherson's post-2010 Travels: http://members.shaw.ca/jmcp1749

Search Engine at Top of Page

 

Webpage validated: Autumn 2011