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Decimation Damnation
Tantalar 9 to Yamana 1, 5980 |
Available worldwide from Phantacea Publications
Three intertwined novellas leading up to and into "Wilderwitch's Babies" mark 40 years of the Phantacea Mythos in print |
Hidden Headgames
Maruta 30 to Tantalar 14, 5980 |
Set entirely on the Inner Earth of Sedon’s Head, ‘Hidden Headgames’ tells untold tales of a wide swath of characters who came to feature in “The Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories” and “Launch 1980” epic fantasies. Webpage exclusive: To order an interactive PDF of either book hit the appropriate button and, once funds have cleared, look for your read-only copy of the mini-novel or collection of three novellas in your inbox. ======== ========- Quick Games Synopses - Witch Babs' Two Second Synopsis - Dec-Dam Ten Second Synopsis - A Selection of Series Specific Graphics - 'Hidden Headgames' webpage - Sixty Second Synopsis - Back Cover Text - Auctorial Preamble - Interior Excerpts - Character Companion - Candidates for New Cover Collage - Notes on Original Version - Original Cover Collage - |
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Phantacea Publications in Print- 'Phantacea Phase Two' 2016-2019 - The 'Launch 1980' story cycle - 'The Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories' Fantasy Trilogy - The '1000 Days' Mini-Novels - The phantacea Graphic Novels - |
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Phantacea Phase Two 2016-2019 |
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Decimation Damnation
Published in 2016; main webpage is here; ordering lynx are here; |
Hidden Headgames
Published in 2017; main webpage is here; ordering lynx are here; |
Daemonic Desperation
Published in 2019; main webpage is here; ordering lynx are here; |
| Phantacea Phase Two 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 |
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The War of the Apocalyptics
Published in 2009; main webpage is here; ordering lynx are here; |
Nuclear Dragons
Published in 2013; main webpage is here; ordering lynx are here; |
Helios on the Moon
Published in 2014; main webpage is here; ordering lynx are here; |
The 'Launch 1980' story cycle comprises three complete, multi-character mosaic novels, |
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'The Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories' Epic Fantasy |
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Feeling Theocidal
Published in 2008; main webpage is here; ordering lynx are here |
The 1000 Days of Disbelief
Published as three mini-novels, 2010/11; main webpage is here |
Goddess Gambit
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 |
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The Death's Head Hellion- Sedonplay -
Published in 2010; main web presence is here; Character Companion starts here; ordering lynx are here; |
Contagion Collectors- Sedon Plague -
Published in 2010; main web presence is here; Character Companion starts here; ordering lynx are here; |
Janna Fangfingers- Sedon Purge -
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 |
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Forever and Forty Days- The Genesis of Phantacea -
Published in 1990; main webpage is here; ordering lynx are here
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The Damnation Brigade- Phantacea Revisited 1 -
Published in 2013; main webpage is here; ordering lynx are here |
Cataclysm Catalyst- Phantacea Revisited 2 -
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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Greetings. Welcome or welcome back, as the case may be, to the Autumn 2017 update.The graphic novels
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Phantacea Phase Two goes backwards to go forward
The three novella collection entitled "Hidden Headgames" marks the second entry in the 'Phantacea Phase Two' Revival. Its events overlap both "Goddess Gambit" and the entirety of the 'Launch 1980' fantasy trilogy, albeit without once visiting the Outer Earth. |
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The final two entries in the 'Launch 1980' story cycle were set, written and rewritten at the same time
They are based on the Phantacea comic book series from the late 70s as well as the pH-Webworld online serials from the mid-90s to early-2000s. Together they provide the print and digital ending to Phantacea Phase One ... finally |
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Every Phantacea Mythos print publication is complete unto itself (themselves). All contain the opening chapters of follow-up publications under the phantacea imprint.
The three mini-novels contain book-specific character companions, as do their e-versions. In the tradition of the phantacea comic books -- its motto being 'Anheroic Fantasy Illustrated' -- image-laden versions of these companions can also be found here Burbling blurbs, along with cover reproductions of each of the constituent mini-novels, start here Phantacea Publications are released by James H McPherson, Publisher. Contact information below As always, good reading! |
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Novels and mini-novels are hardly the only PHANTACEA Mythos print publications available for ordering. As per lynx provided below, Dependent on location, booksellers and bookseller cooperatives can also place bulk orders for the five full-length novels and three mini-novels via either Ingram Books or Ingram International, as per here. |
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Ten second book blurbs courtesy of Phantacea Publications| Mythos Manifesto | "Forever & 40 Days" | "Feeling Theocidal" | "The War of the Apocalyptics" | "The 1000 Days of Disbelief" | "The Death's Head Hellion" | "Contagion Collectors" | "Janna Fangfingers" | "Goddess Gambit" | "Nuclear Dragons" | "Helios on the Moon" | "Decimation Damnation" | "Hidden Headgames" | |
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Nothing less than the PHANTACEA version of the origin of the Devil himself highlights this 1990 collection of short featurettes drawn by Ian Fry and initially intended for the phantacea Phase One project. (Secular Note 1: According to some faiths, fallen angels became devils. They had to have fallen from somewhere, which in Phantacea Mythos books makes them extraterrestrials. Are the heavens not outer space? Of course they are.) (Pun Alert: As for why Hor looks Japanese on the cover of pH-4Ever, when Jim McPherson first heard about Japan's famous Noh theatre as a kid, he decided it had to be named after Noah. The notion never left whatever else is left of his peabrain.) At present only available in print ======== << Double-click images in this row to enlarge in a separate window >> |
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Devils are extraterrestrial -- Daemons are planetarySet primarily on the consequently Inner Earth of Sedon's Head, (Secular Note 2: Undeniable because, as per here and here, that is precisely what the word 'devil' means — and don't let anyone tell you any differently.) Foremost among the tales told is that of Thrygragon. For not just devazurkind in particular, Mithramas 4376 Year of the Dome (Christmas Day 376 AD) may yet prove perhaps the singly most important event in Whole Earth history since Xuthros Hor, the Biblical Noah, caused the Genesea. Both Ginny the Gynosphinx and Andy the Androsphinx make their Phantacea print debuts. One or the other, while romping with whichever, pauses briefly to reintroduce, howsoever smellily, Demon King Daemonicus, to the pre-Genesea world. To say the least, he and Demon Queen Lily, who also makes her print debut herein, prove extremely hard to get rid of hereafter. Feel Theo also contains an afterword by the author. Albeit with the bonus of three or four contextually nifty photographs taken in Mexico City, it is reprinted, in colour, here. ========<< Double-click images in this row to enlarge in a separate window >> |
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Back cover bluster promises what War-Pox delivers: "From the creator of the PHANTACEA Mythos and the writer of ‘Feeling Theocidal’ comes Fallen Angel Devils, comes unrelenting Action, comes the Damnation Brigade, comes the first book of the Launch 1980 cycle." Set on both the Outer and Inner Earth in 19/5980, War-Pox additionally contains a foreword and an afterword by the author. Moreover, as a bonus it ends with the third (originally the first) chapter of 1000-Daze, the immediate sequel to War-Pox's Author's Afterword, reprinted here, with colour shots, is not to be missed. In it, Jim McPherson relates a number of Phantacea-specific Serendipitous Sightings he's experienced over the years, including what he spotted in the amazing picture the Egyptian air force took in the late 20s or early 30s of the Giza Plateau. That can't just be a parking lot can it. Images in this panel double-click; the faun was taken in Antigua, Guatemala whereas the Sundown-like Mayan warrior was taken in Merida, Mexico; also used here and here, with additional notes a click away; more shots representative of the Damnation Brigade can be found here and here.======== << Double-click images in this row to enlarge in a separate window >> |
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No doubt to the Devil's dismay, what begins, perhaps, as a Sedonplay begets a Sedon Plague that necessitates a Sedon Purge. The highly idiosyncratic manner that the wildly wilful Lazaremists deal with each new threat to their persistent dream of Panharmonium has ramifications for just about everyone alive — and, yes, even dead — right up to the night before the launching of the Cosmic Express from the Outer Earth's Centauri Island on November 30, 1980. ======== |
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The Death's Head Hellion
In the nearly 5,000 years since the Moloch Sedon preserved it from the Great Flood of Genesis, the Hidden Continent has never experienced such approaching apocalyptic devastation. Set in the Year of the Dome 4824/5, Hellion presents a terrifying dilemma that Thrygragos Everyman and his firstborn Unities, freewheeling anarchists the loathsome load of them, must resolve lest the post-Thrygragon Era of Empires results in a second Genesea. As for Master Morgan Abyss, it isn't a matter of better the Devil you know. It's a matter of, when dealing with the Devil above, singular and capitalized, never forget the devils below, small case and plural. It's a lesson she learns all too rapidly. Ah, but is it a lesson she also learns all too fatally? << Double-click on the images in this frame to enlarge them in a separate window >> |
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Contagion CollectorsDespite often violent suppression by forces blinkered by monotheistic absolutism, at the height of the Renaissance seekers after secrets are determined to discover all there is to know about the universe.
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Janna FangfingersContagion Collectors aimed to destroy the Inner Earth’s Shining Ones, their devil-gods, by killing off those who would worship them – virtually everyone alive beneath the Cathonic Dome that encloses the Hidden Continent of Sedon’s Head.
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Forces of the Living are attempting to re-conquer it. But if Nergal Vetala, the Blood Queen of the Dead, has her way the only thing they'll successfully do is swell her ranks.
Faced with the viperous menace of Nergal Vetala and her slavish but potentially supremely powerful, devil-slaying soldier, even the usually never-remembered Smiling Fiend has no choice except to do his best imitation of a good guy — to no avail. ======== << Double-click images in this row to enlarge in a separate window >> |
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"Hear me, fascists, Helios is on the Moon destroying you!"Scientists first detect signals coming from somewhere out in space in early 1978. Their excitement's palpable. Finally they've proof humanity isn't alone in the cosmos. Then, about a month after their initial detection, the source is pinpointed. Elation immediately gives way to near-panic.
In an extraordinary session of the Security Council, the United Nations agrees to meet this off-worldly intrusion aggressively. The result, the UNES Liberty, is already in moon orbit when, on the Thirtieth of November 1980, the launching of the Cosmic Express takes place on Centauri Island. The Dual Entities have returned to their own timeline determined to make life for everyone not just vastly better, but perfect.
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Phantacea Phase Two starts here
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Who's wiping out the Damnation Brigade  As told in "Goddess Gambit", before transporting himself, the Diver, Kronokronos Akbarartha, Wildman Dervish Furie, Blind Sundown and Raven's Head to Hadd, the Land of the Dead, Ringleader (Harry Zeross) left three members of the Damnation Brigade behind in the Weirdom of Cabalarkon to be tended by its Master, Saladin Nauroz (called Devason, albeit never to his face), and his comparatively few, altogether functional fellow Utopians.
One of these was Wilderwitch. Ringleader probably would have been appalled at how the Master looked after her. Assuming he survived the final battle for Dustmound, which in fact he didn't even see. Assuming, then, that he survived The other two left behind were Radiant Rider (Gloriella D'Angelo Dark) and D-Brig's leader, Cyborg Cerebrus (David Ryne). Couldn't do much worse than the latter, who'd lost most of his headplate, what made him a cyborg in the first place. The good news about that was it turned out to be Utopian technology. The really bad news is that it's so damaged he has to be submerged in a tub of not so much life- as animation-suspending Cathonic Fluid. Similarly submerged, in the crypt next door to his, is none other than Cabalarkon (Cabby the Daddy), the Undying Utopian who may well be the oldest, still (sort of) living mortal in the cosmos. That he's still around, and occasionally capable of Wayfaring in the Wild Weird, is entirely due to the the fact that the Moloch Sedon regards him as his father. And guess who visits the Weirdom every Mithramas? Which in the Weirdom is now known as Zmas Day, after Harry himself.
The opening mini-novel in 'Wilderwitch's Babies', the latest epic fantasy featuring Jim McPherson's Phantacea Mythos, is entitled There's a reason for that. |
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Previously, on the Hidden Continent of Sedon's Head
Once this Byron, often called the Unmoving One, who's all head and no body, hence also Bodiless Byron, has made the Head’s landmass his to rule, he plans to lead his third generational offspring and their fellow Master Devas, called devils in the Phantacea Mythos, back to the stars. (Devils are extraterrestrials, skyborn, whereas daemons or demons are planetary, the eldritch earthborn.) Turns out Great Byron is the main mover behind the launching of the Cosmic Express from the Outer Earth. Once a suitable new world is thereby discovered, he intends to facilitate a mass escape from their effective prison for 6,000 years: namely the Whole Earth. What with so much else going on, that first week of Tantalar 5980, it’s difficult to tell if either Smiler or Bodiless Byron comes out ahead of the game at first. ======== ... Top of Page Search Engine ... Top of Section ... Upwards ... Downwards ... Fresh Graphics ... Bottom of Page Ordering Lynx
Since their devic half-father, the Moloch Sedon himself, cathonitized her she wants revenge on him as well; he arguably being the Devil, capitalized. In pursuing her goals she runs afoul of the Witches of Weir, whose Panharmonium Project resulted in the Nuclear Dragons preparing to obliterate the Outer Earth’s Centauri Island, launch site of the Cosmic Express. Having lost her solidifying demon when she was ill-starred, and having never had a power focus anyhow, things are looking poorly for her (and her human shell) until … ======== ... Top of Page Search Engine ... Top of Section ... Upwards ... Downwards ... Fresh Graphics ... Bottom of Page Ordering Lynx
It is largely Nihila who saves the Dual Entities from utter ruination on the moon. It’s also she who almost instantly regrets doing so. Re-enter Pyrame Silverstar and the Witches of Weir, this time on the same side. By the end of the collection, some of those whose stories are recounted herein can rightly claim to be winners of these Hidden Headgames. ======== Marking forty years of Jim McPherson's Phantacea Mythos in print, "Hidden Headgames" presents three intertwined novellas featuring characters who appeared during ‘The Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories' and 'Launch 1980' epic fantasy trilogies, all of which are still available for ordering from Phantacea Publications. It leads up to and into the start of 'Wilderwitch's Babies'. That as yet open-ended saga began with the 2016 mini-novel entitled “Decimation Damnation” (Phantacea Phase Two #1). It in turn marked the inception of the Phantacea Phase Two storylines. |
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Of them, about half take place pre-Earth. 
In 4825 Year of the Dome, forces loyal to the Death Gods of Frozen Lathakra threaten to overwhelm the Utopian Weirdom of Cabalarkon. Its demoniacally-empowered Master counterattacks mercilessly.
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Underlying image before it became a page and panel background
Graphic, prior to obscuring, consists of Bosco's Highchair of Hell, the Freespirit Scylla giant, the Northern Lights head, the Northern Lights umbrella and the original collage prepared for pHantaBlog in order to announce the impending arrival of More details re the integral images on pHantaBlog: 'Finally, a front cover option for Hidden Headgames' |
Original collage prepared for pHantaBlog gone green
Some of the shapes various demons, devils and a certain Mandroid Monster Maker -- not to mention the lone demon-devil fused fiendishly on Ragnarok in 234 Pre-Dome -- take during Games: from the left (collage's right) Lethal Lily, Smiler, All of Incain, the Dragon of Byron, and the winged alligator the Diver thought he saw on Sedon's Peak not long before All ate him. Unless they're of some thing or some one else. The pHantaBlog entry is entitled: 'Graphical Exposé'. More details of what went into the collage can be found there. |
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The Highchair of Hell
Hieronymous Bosch's Highchair of Hell as occupied by a demon (or, given the time frame, perhaps Beguiling Belialma, a second born Mithradite Apple Goddess who twice acted as Sinistral Lust of Satanwyck);
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King Harvest
A three-eyed ornamental skull perhaps meant to represent the Tibetan Death God Yima, but used for Phantacea purposes to represent Underlord Yama Nergal, a fifth-born Mithradite Death Devil often referred to as King Harvest; Yama appears in all three of Games' novellas; he also had important roles in Feel Theo and 1000-Daze; image taken from Web |
The Smiling Fiend
Kabuki mask representing a Japanese demon-type known as an oni; image taken from Web For Phantacea purposes used to represent Smiler, the myrionymous demon-devil who first appeared in 1978's Phantacea Three; He's the titular character of Games' first novella, which begins on the 30th of Maruta Year of the Dome, the same day as the launching of the Cosmic Express on the Outer Earth |
Saurlord Klizarod Rex
Drumheller Albertasaurus (?) used to represent Saurlord Klizarod Rex, a seventh-born Mithradite who appears in the first novella, "The Forgotten Fiend"; image taken from web Saudi Tethys, the Steg Sari who stomped her way, howsoever rhythmically, though great swathes of Feel Theo, worshipped him. His colourful brood brother, the Emperor Chameleon, hates him. The feeling's mutual |
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Nihila Nereid
Nihila has taken over Fisherwoman (Scylla Nereid) whose protective Vesica Piscis was damaged by the Untouchable Diver during the latest War between the Living and the Dead, chronologically about halfway through Games |
Non-Witches
Collage featuring representations of Freespirit Nihila, Miracle Memory and Pusan Wanderlust, prepared by Jim McPherson, 2017 Nihila's face is actually a shot of the Northern Lights as scanned in from an issue of Fortean Times; both Memory and Pusan are shots taken by Jim McPherson during his travels in, respectively, Mexico City and Venice, Italy |
Interior Collage
An example of one of the six black and white interior collages prepared for "Hidden Headgames" by Jim McPherson, 2017 Text reads "The Forgotten Fiend", "Pyrame's Progress" and "Acquiring Nihila" |
Interior Example in Colour
Full colour version of one of the b/w interior graphics prepared by Jim McPherson, 2017, for Text reads the same as next door's: "The Forgotten Fiend", "Pyrame's Progress" and "Acquiring Nihila" |
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Back Cover Lily
Transparent GIF prepared for the back cover of "Hidden Headgames". Jettisoned when Strife sought to take over Miracle Maenad during Helmoon (and as also alluded to in Nuke, which was written at the same time), Primeval Lilith finds herself in Absudyl, the Subterranean Land of the Mandroids, deep beneath the Weirdom of Cabalarkon. Where, incidentally, she ruled while subsumed by Master Morgan Abyss for most of "The Death's Head Hellion". She was back there by the time of "Decimation Damnation" as Wilderwitch's Miss Murk, Mad for Mud Magpies. As hit upon during Games, she had a couple of stops – and at least one collision – before she got there. |
Freespirit Nihila ... before Fangers
Long-serving graphic representing Datong Harmonia, the Unity of Panharmonium, is built over a shot of a painting entitled "La nueva democracia" by David A. Siqueiros. Jim McPherson, the creator/writer of the Phantacea Mythos, took the shot of the painting where it still is, at the Bellas Artes Opera House in Mexico City, in the early 1990s, years after he came up with Freespirit Nihila and her chains. As per "Contagion Collectors", the Hidden Headworld did experience an Age of Panharmonium from circa 5000 to 5500 YD (1000 to 1500 AD). That ended with events told in "Janna Fangfingers", the third mini-novel extracted from "The Thousand Days of Disbelief". Actually it was told by Jordan 'Q for Quill' Tethys, aka the Legendarian, in Fangers. He's another one back, howsoever briefly, in "Hidden Headgames". So is Yehudi Cohen (D-Brig's Untouchable Diver) and Tsishah Thrae (Twilight), the late(?) Morrigan's daughter by the faerie-type, Tom-Tiddly Taddletale. In order to title a novella "Acquiring Nihila", one might expect someone to acquire a Nihila therein. |
Lovely Lilith, Lethal Lily
Can't have demons without daemonic royalty. Lilith, the apocryphal mother of Cain, Slayer of Abel, is the odds-on choice for her name. Miracle Maenad raged on about her in Helmoon, apparently without realizing she'd had hold of her for something like ninety of Heliosophos's lifetimes (including the time Lilith gave birth to Anti-Patriarch Cain, in his 61st). For some reason Pyrame Silverstar has been denying she was her demon for most of six thousand years. Whether or not she's in a state of post decathonitization denial throughout "Pyrame's Progress", she's wrong. More on this graphic can be found on a pHantaBlog entry entitled, what else?: "Lovely Lily — Lethal Lilith" |
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Lord Laziest
A Frank Frazetta drawing scanned in from an art book used to represent Baaloch Hellblob, Sinistral Sloth of Satanwyck. Often called 'Egg' because he's portly and doesn't have much of a neck, Hellblob has been ruling Satanwyck (Sedon's Temple, Hell on Earth) since the French Revolution beyond the Dome. That was when his immediate predecessor, Sinistral Envy (Cupidity, last seen in Contagion) couldn't resist guillotining Marie Antoinette personally and was promptly ill-starred (cathonitized, sometimes also catasterized or stellified) for killing a lesser being. Something of a spoiler alert as to what else is coming Sloth's way can be found in a Serendipity and ... entry entitled: "Not War-Pox, Pocket Pocks". - Double-click to enlarge the full Frazetta in a separate window - |
Pyrame's Progress
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.) Beneath her is the gaping maw of a saltwater crocodile. It's there since one of the forms Lethal Lily takes on in Games is that of a winged alligator. 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 interior collage
The Nihila-figure in the Northern Lights tops this collage. 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 two apparent children 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 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. |
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Daemonic Desperation
There's a reason Wilderwitch remains alive long enough to get pregnant. There's a reason her soul-self does too; making that two (pregnancies). Has to do the hooded thought-widow the still-recovering Demios Sarpedon spots on what he subsequently should have started calling Demon Mound. |
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Back cover collage
Raven's Head also counts as one of D-Brig's original members. She doesn't telescope out her unicorn horn due to an absence of devils, other than the Devil himself, capitalized, in the Weirdom of Cabalarkon. Back cover text is reprinted here |
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Preferred Frontispiece for digital edition
Wilderwitch is a face-dancer. That means she can alter her appearance by mentally manipulating her external aura; not that her face dances or that a skeletal revenant replaces her mouth. She should have been killed in Temporis near the end of And that's about it for the good news. |
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Images for cover collages
Wilderwitch already has one child, Fey Woman. She's bodily older than her mother. Seems further that D-Brig weren't the only ones Demon Land brought back from Limbo on the 30th of November 1980 on D-Isle. As per War-Pox and One of those last isn't her daughter. Even more worryingly Fey can bodily traverse the Weird; can even get through the Cathonic Dome. |
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Notional Mock-up for Des-Dam Back Cover
The Halloween decoration will definitely not make it to the final back cover. The Wilderwitch poster might not either. Plus the text doesn't stand out enough. Still ... |
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"Destination Damnation"Coming in 2018 Text reads 'Abandon All Hope'; Witch with cauldron is by John Waterhouse; falling woman and bear are by Walter Molino; Sedon, Lakshmi-sort and Fire Witch uncredited in notes; collage by Jim McPherson, 2016. Sunset used in background on this page and in all the panels in this row shot at Jericho Beach in Vancouver, Canada, 2015 |
Des-Dam original front cover lockup
The title and sunset are different from the cover collage presented above. Probably won't be used, though, as essential image made it to the final cover of Dec-Dam |
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'Babies' promo using digital cover
A great deal, very little of it good, happens to Wilderwitch in Dec-Dam besides A round-up of most of the images that went into this promo can be found beginning here. The main entry on Saladin born Nauroz, who previously featured most notably in |
Turns out it isn't the Conquering Christ either
In contrast to this promotional graphic, John Sundown should also be wearing a blindfold; the Moai isn't so much a between-space stone gnome as a Lemurian guard-body; Dand Tariqartha is a star in the night's sky above Sedon's Head; and, when last we saw him (in
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2004 Front Cover for Web-Serial
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Utopians of Weir on Earth
As told in the 1990 graphic novel entitled |
The High Illuminary of Weir
Mel-Illuminatus (Melina born Sarpedon become Zeross) plays a major role throughout "Wilderwitch's Babies"; as recorded primarily in pH-Webworld, she's a full-blooded Utopian |
2004 Back Cover for Web-Serial
This graphic was prepared for a pH-Webworld entry initially entitled: 'Manifesting Gargoyles' |
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This is how they should have ended
The Phantacea Comic Book series, that is, since Phantacea Seven never came out and that's wherein the Covers for all the phantacea comics and graphic novels are reproduced here |
The 2014 Sun-Moon-Kissing phantacea.com Logo
The Dual Entities are Heliosophos and Miracle Memory. More simply known as Helios and Mnemosyne, or Memory, they represent the Sun and the Moon not just in the Phantacea Mythos The apparent friendship between them, albeit as Sol and Luna, and (Thrygragos Varuna) Mithras featured prominently in the rituals of Cave Mithraism, as performed more than two thousand years ago amongst Roman Legionnaires. More on that in the notes for the Collage Collective here; lynx to online articles re Mithraism are here; the picture is of a woodcut spotted and shot in the Yucatan area of Mexico by Jim McPherson, 2013;More road shots are here and incorporated into the 1000-Daze collage covers |
"The War of the Apocalyptics" The opening entry in the 'Launch 1980' story cycle was largely based on Phantacea Two to Five A good percentage of this sequence was recaptured in the graphic novel Cover is for the digital versions of the book. Dedicated webpage is here |
"Nuclear Dragons"
The 'Launch 1980' story cycle continued in "Nuclear Dragons". It was largely based on the Centauri Island sequences that began in Phantacea One and Two. It, too, was supposed to come to an explosive conclusion in Phantacea Seven. Indeed, Ian Bateson's stunning cover was originally roughed out for just that, pH-7 Cover is for Digital Dragons, the e-versions of Nuke. Dedicated webpage is here
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'Launch 1980'
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Memory seizes control of the Liberty
Among those on the UNES Liberty when the Mnemosyne Machine aspect of Miracle Memory remotely takes over its controls are Professor Romaine Kinesis and OJ 'Big Max' Maxwell from They don't stay Normie Normalmen for long. Their transformation has nothing to do with the Magellan Toe Brains they're served during their repast with the past, as hosted by the Dual Entities, though It has, rather, everything to do with the Cosmic Express's secondary, not to mention teleportive, fuel, Gypsium Godstuff, aka Brainrock Larger Defiance & No Name artwork by Gene Day, taken from pH-4, 1979; smaller Defiance and No Name figures, as well as Liberty, are by Ricardo Sandoval, 2014; collage prepared by Jim McPherson, 2014The Dual Entities are roughly two thousand years old, taken from the Louvre museum's website here, also here; backdrop also used here
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The Black Rose of Anarchy
Rom Kinesis, Big Max Maxwell, Mik Starrus and Kadmon Heliopolis briefly come into play during However, Starrus, Kinesis and Max have been in phantacea since pH-1, 1977; as per here, Heliopolis as Helios on the Moon first appeared on the front cover of pH-3, 1978; The Black Rose artwork, which features Mik Starrus and Lord Order, is by Peter Lynde, from pH-3, 1978; the larger versions of Doc Defiance and the Indescribable Mr No Name are by Gene Day, from pH-4, 1979;The bluish background in this column and the column below, as well as the page itself, is a variation of the artwork also seen here and double-clicks here. It's described here |
LAC Squads converted on the Moon
The Liberty lets loose two of its four Lunar Assault Crews, one led by an American, the other by a Soviet 'citizen'; evidently both squads quickly come to see the light -- and it's all coming from Helios The 'Helios on the Moon' graphic is taken from pH-4, 1979, artwork by Gene Day; the rest of the artwork is from the back cover of the novel,
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2012 promo for Hel-Moon
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Brighter Earth
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Darker Earth
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2014 promo for Hel-Moon
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Who's possessing Helios anyhow?
The Female Entity, often aka Miracle Memory, thinks it's Future Order (Lord Vajra, no longer Lord Yajur), from their 99th Lifetimes. She may actually believe that's true, too. Then again she reckons Future Night (Erebe Thanatos) is humanizing her. Could be she's just as wrong about that. In any case, her male counterpart, Helios called Sophos the Wise (Heliosophos), doesn't agree with her assertions. He doesn't think anyone's possessing him. Being a time-tumbler, he might yet prove himself right in that regard. However, as per the graphic, certain indicators strongly argue otherwise. |
Helio-Humour in 2014
You too can stick your head in the hole and become for a shot ... probably the Sun King, since Jim McPherson, the creator/writer of the Phantacea Mythos, took this shot in Versailles, the onetime home of Louis XIV. As the caption gives away, it wasn't in 1980, though. The Dual Entities are time-tumblers, not time-travellers. They fall through time randomly so, even if the events described in the 'Launch 1980' story cycle occurred during Helios's 100th Lifetime, he could easily have spent part of an earlier one in France, ca 2014. As rather strongly suggested in |
The 'Launch 1980' Collage Collective
Three full-length novels, as well as parts of both That makes it an ensemble piece, meaning a lot happens, to a lot of characters, in a lot of different places, over the course of roughly ten days. While nary a one might be considered a hero per se, there's plenty of derring-do. The two seemingly collecting the collages are shown in the top corners. Some two thousand years ago, when their images were crafted, their generic names were Sol and Luna. In the Phantacea Mythos, they're the Dual Entities. They're also both on the moon, the reason why everyone else goes there. Have to say, though, "The Dual Entities on the Moon" doesn't have quite the ring you'd want in a book title. |
Did anyone survive Gambit?
A valid question. Either everyone who hadn't died already in As for the fates of some of those in serious trouble at the end of After All (capitalized), which is how it ends, As for the artwork in the double-click and panel background, as per here it's yet another Verne variation. It can best be seen here. More here and here
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Daemonic Royalty
Original Demon King Daemonicus and Primeval Lilith are back. Well, speculatively, if not so much explicitly, in Indeed, as per 'The Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories' epic trilogy, it's only because they occupy debrained daemonic bodies that Master Devas can even become solid individuals |
Kitty Dulled
This sequence doesn't happen in any of the 'Launch 1980' mosaic novels; its aftermath does. Which is to say, Harry Zeross and Freespirit Nihila make very significant contributions to Which in turn helps explain this remark and the query found in the last panel here Artwork in the collage and background of this panel utilizes Verne Andru's figures from the covers of
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Flipped Out Kitty
Bad Rhad does not come under attack from all quarters in the culminating entry of the 'Launch 1980' story cycle. There's no escape from his allies, the Thanatoid Death Gods of Frozen Lathakra, in Hel-Moon, though. No escape from virtually all of their devic half-children. either; nor said kids' other set of half-parents. One guess where most of them turn up. Background image flipped horizontally and dulled; figure work from covers of |
Front cover for Phantacea Three
The seemingly cowering figure to Helios's left is wearing a head-kerchief covering her third eye; that might make it Miracle Memory, except she never cowers Where it all began for Hel-Moon; artwork by Richard (nowadays once again Ricardo) Sandoval, 1978
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The epic 'Launch 1980' fantasy trilogy
... starts with the launching of the Cosmic Express. But did you know that it wasn't just New Century Enterprises behind it? You will, once you read Hel-Moon, which effectively marks the end of Phantacea Phase One.
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Big Mistake, Maelstrom
Now that you've got hold of the Elemental Twins' power foci and thereby thoroughly annoyed the newly re-solidified Damnation Brigade, you better flee. Won't do you much good, though. Indeed, the launching of the Cosmic Express will prove a very bad day for you and yours. And not just in War-Pox either. Your Thrygragos of an Unmoving father should have never have committed to building the Express. (Who did you think was occupying the Fatman's Untouchables in, most notably, |
Waiting in the Wings
On the Hidden Continent: Freespirit Nihila, old Kind Cold and All of Incain, to name the three pictured. The Phantom Freighter, Crystallion and Hell's Horsemen had to have come from somewhere. And if one of the Atomic Idiots (Mithras's Torchbearers) powers nuclear dragons, who do you think powers All while the Idiot's otherwise occupied? No, it's not Nihila, but one of them is pictured. He's married to the other, Heat to his Cold. And they did have a bunch of children, fourth generation devils all. Guess where a half-dozen of them end up? Whose face is All wearing? Rather, wearing before she got all Nemesis-like, again, on Sedon's Head after events told in Gambit. Any guesses where she gets to before Hel-Moon ends? Lighter blue page background can best be viewed here. Rollover is here. |
Where dwell the thrice-cursed Sisters
They haven't been seen since They're just really, really faraway. Or were, until the Wandering SAG Gap gets itself relocated near the Moon. And who might have done that? Hint: All of Incain doesn't just wear pre-Nihila's face. More on the Trigregos Sisters can be found here, here, here and here. Or you can click them into the search engine at the top of the page |
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Phantacea One
Artwork by Dave Sim, 1977 Original web-presence preserved here Note: Most of Dave Sim's Launching of the Cosmic Express sequence reappeared in
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Phantacea Two
Artwork by Gordon Parker, 1978 Original web-presence preserved here Note: A couple of pages of Gordon Parker's depiction of the encounter between Rom Kinesis (pre Doc Defiance) and Devil Wind were reprinted in
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Phantacea Three Obverse
Artwork by Richard Sandoval, 1978 Original web-presence preserved here Note: None of the Helios on the Moon sequences in this issue were reproduced in either
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Phantacea Three Verso
Artwork by Ian Bateson, 1978 Original web-presence preserved here Note: Reproductions of virtually all of the sequences drawn by Verne Andrusiek, Carl Muecke and Ian Bateson for the flip side of this issue appear in
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Phantacea Four
Artwork by Ian Bateson, 1979 Original web-presence preserved here Note: Only reproductions of the Byronic Nucleus sequences drawn by Ian Bateson appear in
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Phantacea Five
Inks largely by Verne Andrusiek, 1979/80; Cover coloured, typeset and partially redrawn by Ian Bateson, 1980 Original web-presence preserved here Note: Reproductions of virtually all the sequences drawn by Ian Bateson, Vince Marchesano, various Day Brothers & unaccredited friends, Tim Hammell and George Freeman (with Verne Andrusiek) appear in |
Phantacea Six
Artwork by Verne Andrusiek, 1980 Original web-presence preserved here Note: Verne Andrusiek drew this entire 32-page issue. It concludes the Soldier's Saga begun in pH-2 by Sean Newton and carried on in issues #4 & #5 by Verne Andrusiek.Most of the material prepared for the Soldier's Saga reappear in |
Phantacea Seven (unfinished)
Artwork by Ian Bateson, 1980 Original web-presence preserved here Note: This issue was supposed to conclude both the Launching of Cosmic Express and the Helios on the Moon story cycles. Unfortunately producing it proved a logistical nightmare and it was abandoned.Only Ian Bateson's Hell's Horsemen sequence was drawn and lettered. Those pages as they were initially submitted can be seen here. The same pages, digitally re-lettered by Jim McPherson in 2014, have finally seen print in |
Phantacea Phase One #1
Artwork by Ian Bateson, 1987 Original web-presence preserved hereNote: Some the material Ian Bateson redid over Dave Sim's original appears in
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Forever & 40 Days
Artwork by Ian Bateson over Ian Fry, circa 1989 The first graphic novel from Phantacea Publications came out in 1990.Drawn entirely by Ian Fry, it was made up of backup sequences intended for the pHz1 project.Artwork for the cover was finished by Ian Bateson over Ian Fry's original.The pH-4Ever webpage is here. |
Phantacea Revisited 1: The Damnation Brigade
Artwork by Ian Bateson, 1987/2012 Collects the entire Damnation Brigade storyline from pH 1-5 (1977-1980), pHz1 #1 (1987) and pHz1 #2 (unpublished).Earlier reproductions of Ian Bateson's until now unpublished artwork for the pHz1 project can be found here and here.The graphic novel's webpage is here.Chris Chuckry did some facial touch-up work on the Untouchable Diver, the Elemental Twins, Gloriel and the Witch |
Phantacea Revisited 2: Cataclysm Catalyst
Artwork by Verne Andru, 1982-87/2013 Corrects and collects the entire Soldier's Saga from pH 2-6; starts with the Launching of the Cosmic Express as drawn by Dave Sim, 1977; continues with Phantacea's origin of the Devil Sedon as drawn by Ian Fry, ca 1986/7; and concludes with Ian Bateson's 6-page, Hell's Horsemen sequence intended for Phantacea Seven, 1980, as digitally re-lettered by Jim McPherson, 2014. The graphic novel's webpage is here. |
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Forever & 40 Days1990 Graphic Novel
Genesis of the PHANTACEA Mythos; dedicated webpage is here page contents - section contents - ordering lynx - next |
Feeling Theocidal2008 Full Length Novel
Book One in the Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories trilogy; also available in a variety of e-book formats; dedicated webpage is here page contents - section contents - ordering lynx - next |
The War of the Apocalyptics2009 Full Length Novel
Opening entry in the Launch 1980 story cycle; also available in a variety of e-book formats; dedicated webpage is here page contents - section contents - ordering lynx - next |
The Death's Head Hellion2010 Mini-Novel
Commences "The 1000 Days of Disbelief", Book Two in the Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories trilogy; also available in a variety of e-book formats; dedicated website is here page contents - section contents - ordering lynx - next |
Contagion Collectors2010 Mini-Novel
Continues "The 1000 Days of Disbelief", Book Two in the Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories trilogy; also available in a variety of e-book formats; dedicated website is here page contents - section contents - ordering lynx - next |
Janna Fangfingers2011 Mini-Novel
Concludes "The 1000 Days of Disbelief", Book Two in the Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories trilogy; doubles as the prequel to the Launch 1980 story cycle; also available in a variety of e-book formats; dedicated website is here page contents - section contents - ordering lynx - next |
Goddess Gambit2012 Full Length Novel
Book Three in the Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories trilogy; eventually meshes with the Launch 1980 story cycle; also available in a variety of e-book formats; dedicated webpage is here page contents - section contents - ordering lynx - next |
Phantacea Revisited 1: The Damnation Brigade120 page Graphic Novel
Published in 2013; artwork from pH 1-5 (1977-1980), pHz1 #1 (1987) and pHz1 #2 (unpublished), of which more is here; dedicated webpage is here page contents - section contents - ordering lynx - next |
Nuclear Dragons2013 Full Length Novel
The for sure second, full length entry in the Launch 1980 story cycle, cover art by Ian Bateson; recounts, in four parts, the actual launch of the Cosmic Express and the immediate ramifications of its apparent destruction particularly on its launch site, the Outer Earth's Centauri Island; dedicated webpage is here page contents - section contents - ordering lynx |
Phantacea Revisited 2: Cataclysm Catalyst96 page Graphic Novel
Published in 2014; artwork from pH 1-7 (1977-1980) and pHz1 #1 (1987), dedicated webpage is here page contents - section contents - ordering lynx - next |
Launch 1980
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Helios on the Moon2014 Full Length Novel
The climactic, full length entry in the Launch 1980 story cycle, cover art by Ricardo Sandoval; the Dual Entities have been back in their own timeline for a few years now; they're trying to change things for the better; how often does that work out; dedicated webpage is here page contents - section contents - ordering lynx - next |
Decimation Damnation
The start of the Phantacea Phase Two Revival; published in 2016; main webpage is here; ordering lynx are here; page contents - section contents - ordering lynx - next |
Hidden Headgames
Continuing the Phantacea Phase Two Revival; published in 2017; main webpage is here; ordering lynx are here; page contents - section contents - ordering lynx - next |
Daemonic Desperation
Published around Witch Night 2019; main webpage is here; ordering lynx are here; page contents - section contents - ordering lynx |
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