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2009 -- 'The War of the Apocalyptics', the first book in the Launch 1980 story sequence

2008 -- 'Feeling Theocidal', the very first, all-prose novel featuring Jim McPherson's PHANTACEA Mythos as well as Book One of 'The Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories'

1990 -- PHANTACEA, the Graphic Novel: 'Forever & 40 Days -- the Genesis of PHANTACEA'

1986 -- PHANTACEA Phase One #1 (and only)

1977-1980 -- PHANTACEA, the Comic Book Series: One to Six

(Ordering information on remaining print-publications and scanned-in copies of the original comic book series can always be found here)

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Excerpts from 'The War of the Apocalyptics'

Print Published in the late Autumn of 2009

• The 30-Second Synopsis
• War-Pox's full cover
• Blowups of its front cover and the blurb on its back cover
• The Damnation Brigade as first described in the novel
• The Apocalyptics as first described in the novel
• Fourth Generation Thanatoids (from Devil Wind's perspective)
• Cute and creamy cuddly -- anticipating "The Trigregos Gambit"
• Cerebrus reckons Signal System derives its Silver and the other devices Signallers use from discoveries made by Cousin Jess in the 40s and very early 50s
• Cerebrus and the Silver Arrow Assassins
• Sagitta shot Cerebrus, not his father, Loxus Abraham Ryne, in March 1939
• Sharpshooter as a Silver Arrow
• Shoot reckons otherwise
• Damnation Island akin to a natural (?) tholos
• The Hiroshima Cathedral's spire acts as a tholos in August 1945
• Shots of tholoi taken in Crete
• The novel's first 3 chapters
  
  1. War-Pox 1: "THE DAMNATION BRIGADE"
  2. War-Pox 2: "ADVENT OF THE APOCALYPTICS"
  3. War-Pox 3: "THUS SPAKE XUTHROS HOR"

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Excerpts from 'Feeling Theocidal'

Print-published in the early Autumn of 2008

• The 60-Second Synopsis
• Feel-Theo's full cover
• Blowup of its front cover and the blurb on its back cover
• The novel's first 3 chapters:
  1. Pre-Theo: "THE CRUCIFIXION OF TERRIBLE TETHYS"
  2. Theo 1: "THE WEIRDOM OF KANIN CITY"
  3. Theo 2: "THRYGRAGOS VARUNA MITHRAS"
  
• Why does the Moloch Sedon carry a damn pitchfork anyhow?
• The Moloch Sedon as the mighty Eye-Mouth in the Sky
• No one ever wins a Sedonplay except Sedon - but the Bull'll try one anyhow
• Thrygragos Varuna Mithras reflects on the benefits of henotheism
• Could be Thrygragos Mithras actually suffered from Tri-Solar Disorder
• The Egg-Myth of Mithras
• Mithras as the Bi-Solar Disabler of Disorder
• Smiler says: "Don't let yourself get a swelled head -- because it might just fall off!"
• Mithras reflects on the absurd notion of him being born a mortal, only to go on to become humanity’s saviour
• Datong Harmonia, the self-proclaimed Unity of Panharmonium, tells Helena Somata, the Master of the Weirdom of Kanin City, how best to dispose of devils
• Not only Pusan Wanderlust gets polyamorous on Mithramas Eve
• Why 2 Names for 1 Great God
• Rightly or wrongly, Thrygragos Mithras identifies Smiler as Ahriman
• The Great God Lazareme as Thrygragos Everyman
• Thrygragos Lazareme and his firstborn daughter, Datong Harmonia, use appropriate language
• Pyrame Silverstar tells half-son, Gorgon Tethys, why she's a perpetual presence
• Tralalorn (Devil or Demon Child?) adopted by the Korant Sisterhood early in Headworld History
• The Demon Child as a horrifying ventriloquist
• re Cathune Bubastis - The Apocalyptic of Drought
• Mithras still desires Desiccated Drought
• The Universal Soldier's half-mom was Strife
• Attis spots the Glorious Dead riding Vultyrie over the Gregarian Fields
• Spousal Reprisal
• Divine Coueranna always bursts with birth come Mithramas
• Muck suits Apple Goddesses
• Bouncing Belle and the Beast (Bull) of Mithras
• The Medusa says to call her Mother Murder
• The Medusa as Warrior Mom
• Stars and Myths v/s the PHANTACEA fact of the matter
• The Medusa minus her stone stare
• She still looks PHANTACEA frightening, though
• What a difference neither a day nor a name makes for Attis and Matare
• Trails aren't all the Trailblazer blazes on Mithramas Day
• Titanic Metis provides a tantalizing twist to the myth of Medusa and Mediterranean Athena
• She (aka Metisophia) also quotes Ovid
• Whose cestus is it - Matare's or Flowery Anthea's?
• Catastrophe loses his head in love, literally
• There's a cockatrice and a basilisk; but is there a Lamia or a Medusa?
• Nergal Vetala uses her moon-sickle to devastating effect
• Famish and Diluvia Ran (the Apocalyptics of, respectively, Famine and Flood) described
• The Leper's lady (Milady Malaise, the Apocalyptic of Simple Sickness) as a health nut
• Feel Theo's Afterword (includes shots taken in Mexico City and lynx to some off-site pictures)

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Lynx to More Excerpts from 'Feeling Theocidal'

(as found in PHANTACEA on the Web)

• A Provisional Preview
• The grist of the novel's gist
• The Demons of Salvador
• The Mark of Cain
• Andy and Ginny
• A Lion-Headed God
• Hinny the Hippy
• More on Tralalorn's Chimera (3-Headed Stynx) in 4376 YD
• Hate-Sedon Utopians in 4376 YD
• Trala sheds crocodile tears
• Hecate the Hellion suckles Defecated Daemonicus
• Thrygragos Mithras recalls myths re himself
• Thrygragos Lazareme as Thrygragos Everyman
• Lazy Lazareme's firstborn Unities see him their way
• Mithras does not approve of Father Sedon's pitchfork
• Mithras fancies himself a bi-solar disabler of disorder
• Cannibalistic Angelycs (Builders of Apple Isle's Mithradium)
• The Dual Entities as Adam and Eve
• The Sedonshem first settles on the moon
• Dropping like leaves falling off the Patriarch Tree
• Not just Anti-Patriarch Cain pays the price
• Jaro Dan (Odin?) almost does too -- until Ragnarok, that is
• Djinn Domitian (The Masochist)
• Saudi Tethys -- the Steg Sari
• All of Incain and Attis's Peg (A Pair of Psychopomps)
• Taurus Chrysaor Attis -- The Universal Soldier
• Valkyrie Swan Maidens -- The Choosers of the Slain
• Jordan Tethys -- The Legendary 30-Year Man
• Garden (Yeast) Tethys
• Isn't War Wonderful?
• Mama Sylvia and Daughter Wooden (The Deadly Dryads)
• Every Tee-Tee Has 2 Tales to Tell - One Tale's Their Tail

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Excerpts from 'The 1000 Days of Disbelief'

• Ptah/Helios mass murderously wiped out Eden/Atlantis long Pre-Dome (PD)
• Utopians must have realized upon first seeing 'her' that All of Incain was a Mandroid Master Machine
• Datong Harmonia watches Strife melt away in 4000 YD
• 30-Beers doesn't make it to 30 years yet again in 4824 YD
• Not a holey death, only an unholy one
• The Death's Head Hellion has an at least borderline brilliant brainstorm days pre-Mithramas 4824
• Nergal Vetala rules the Gleaming City of Manoa by 4824
• Sinistral Lust wears a Denim Demon in 4824/5 YD
• Sometimes Kore-Coitus wears actual clothes too
• Until Master Morgan Abyss reprograms her in late Tantalar 4824, All of Incain reports to Pyrame Silverstar
• Pointy-headed Pyrame inside a Kestrel in 4825 YD
• Strife a mom no more
• Tomcat Tattletail not a Dusted Daemonicus in 4825
• Sarpedons, a Utopian underclass in 4825, seem to worship Thrygragos Everyman
• Strife as a manifest gargoyle in 4825 YD
• Sangazurs native to Valhalla, in the Laughing Lands of the Upper Headworld, prior to Samhain 4825
• Sometime after Samhain 4825, Sangs make Sedon's Inner Nose, aka the Bloodlands, into New Valhalla
• Zal's Mel as a Utopian throwback in 5456 YD
• Q as in Quidnunc in 5456 YD
• A Quit-Quill Tethys in 5456 YD
• Third time dead (but still drinking)
• Dark Star Sedon mysteriously missing again in 5474 YD
• Enticing, thy name still be Goat in 5476 YD
• Cathy as Brainrot
• Unholy Abaddon, the Unity of Chaos, falls for Janna Somata, Zal & Mel's deviant daughter, in 5476 YD
• Abe Chaos reckons Zal's Mel a Hecate Hellion in 5476 YD
• Devic Origins (from the Librarian's perspective)
• The Librarian notes Tholoi in Squiggly's fruity fantasies
• Telling tales in 5980 YD
• APM All-Eyes' sometimes shell in 5980 YD is a different Janna (St Peche Montressor, not Somata)

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Illustrated Studies of Characters (with text taken from the mosaic novels)

• The Shining Ones -- The 1st & 2nd Generation of Devakind
• The Shining Ones -- Mithradite Master Devas (The Second-Born Apple Goddesses, Mithras's Ninth, Gorgons & The Twelfth, Apocalyptics and their War-Pox Allies)
• Deviants (Taurus Chrysaor Attis, Pusan Wanderlust, Quill Tethys in 3 different timelines, the Damnation Brigade in November 1980)

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Illustrated Features on the PHANTACEA Mythos in General

• Definitions disputable 'in pHant context'
• Devils, Demons, Dates, and various other Diversionary Details
• Devic Origins – The Accepted Wisdom
• Earthborn more than meets Skyborn - The Persistence of the Sedon Sphere
• PHANTACEA Print Publications - A Timeline

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Previous Welcoming Pages as well as Web-Publisher's Commentaries that are still online

• phantacea.com Early Autumn 08 (mostly pre-Theo)
• phantacea.com Late Autumn 08 (post-Theo)
• phantacea.com Summer 2009 (pre-Pox)
• phantacea.com Autumn 2009 (Pox arrives)
• phantacea.com Winter 2009/10 (post-Pox)
• pH-Webworld's current Web Publisher's Commentary
• lynx to previous commentaries, 'Hestia Housekeeping' news and today's topics

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Webpage last updated: Spring 2010

Ordering Information for PHANTACEA Mythos mosaic novels

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Current Web-Publisher's Commentary

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

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