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Welcome to a Glossary of Peculiarities re Supra-Groups appearing in Jim McPherson's phantacea Mythos

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Phantacea Publications in Print

- 'Phantacea Phase Two' 2016-2018 - The 'Launch 1980' story cycle - 'The Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories' Fantasy Trilogy - The '1000 Days' Mini-Novels - The phantacea Graphic Novels -

Phantacea Phase Two 2016-2018

Decimation Damnation

Decimation Damnation front cover, collage prepared by Jim McPherson, 2017

Mini-novel published in 2016; main webpage is here; ordering lynx are here;

Hidden Headgames

Hidden Headgames front cover, collage prepared by Jim McPherson, 2017

Collection of three intertwined novellas published in 2017; main webpage is here; ordering lynx are here;

Daemonic Desperation

Daemonic Desperation cover mockup, collage prepared by Jim McPherson, 2016

Tentative cover for Dem-Des; will probably be changed before it's published; scheduled to be released in 2018;

The Phantacea Phase Two revival 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

The War of the Apocalyptics

Front cover of War Pox, artwork by Ian Bateson, 2009

Published in 2009; main webpage is here; ordering lynx are here;

Nuclear Dragons

Nuclear Dragons front cover, artwork by Ian Bateson, 2013

Published in 2013; main webpage is here; ordering lynx are here;

Helios on the Moon

Front cover for Helios on the Moon, artwork by Ricardo Sandoval, 2014

Published in 2014; main webpage is here; ordering lynx are here;

The 'Launch 1980' story cycle comprises three complete, multi-character mosaic novels, "The War of the Apocalyptics", "Nuclear Dragons" and "Helios on the Moon", as well as parts of two others, "Janna Fangfingers" and "Goddess Gambit". Together they represent creator/writer Jim McPherson's long running, but now concluded, project to novelize the Phantacea comic book series.

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'The Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories' Epic Fantasy

Feeling Theocidal

Front Cover for Feel Theo, artwork by Verne Andru, 2008

Published in 2008; main webpage is here; ordering lynx are here

The 1000 Days of Disbelief

Front cover of The Thousand Days of Disbelief, collage prepared by Jim McPherson, 2010

Published as three mini-novels, 2010/11; main webpage is here; ordering lynx for individual mini-novels are here

Goddess Gambit

Front cover for Goddess Gambit by Verne Andru, 2012

Published in 2012; main webpage is here; ordering lynx are here

Circa the Year of Dome 2000, Anvil the Artificer, a then otherwise unnamed, highborn Lazaremist later called Tvasitar Smithmonger, dedicated the first three devic talismans, or power foci, that he forged out of molten Brainrock to the Trigregos Sisters.

The long lost, possibly even dead, simultaneous mothers of devakind hated their offspring for abandoning them on the far-off planetary Utopia of New Weir. Not surprisingly, their fearsome talismans could be used to kill Master Devas (devils).

For most of twenty-five hundred years, they belonged to the recurring deviant, Chrysaor Attis, time after time proven a devaslayer. On Thrygragon, Mithramas Day 4376 YD, he turned them over to his Great God of a half-father, Thrygragos Varuna Mithras, to use against his two brothers, Unmoving Byron and Little Star Lazareme, in hopes of usurping their adherents and claiming them as his own.

Hundreds of years later, these selfsame thrice-cursed Godly Glories helped turn the devil-worshippers of Sedon's Head against their seemingly immortal, if not necessarily undying gods. Now, five hundred years after the 1000 Days of Disbelief, they've been relocated.

The highest born, surviving devic goddesses want them for themselves; want to thereby become incarnations of the Trigregos Sisters on the Hidden Continent. An Outer Earthling, one who has literally fallen out of the sky after the launching of the Cosmic Express, gets to them first ...

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The '1000 Days' Mini-Novels

The Death's Head Hellion

- Sedonplay -

Front cover for The Death's Head Hellion, collage prepared by Jim McPherson, 2010

Published in 2010; main web presence is here; Character Companion starts here; ordering lynx are here;

Contagion Collectors

- Sedon Plague -

Front cover for Contagion Collectors, collage prepared by Jim McPherson, 2010

Published in 2010; main web presence is here; Character Companion starts here; ordering lynx are here;

Janna Fangfingers

- Sedon Purge -

Front cover for Janna Fangfingers, collage prepared by Jim McPherson, 2011

Published in 2011; two storylines recounted side-by-side, the titular one narrated by the Legendarian in 5980, the other indirectly leading into the 'Launch 1980' story cycle; main web presence is here; Character Companion starts here; ordering lynx are here;

In the Year of the Dome 4825, Morgan Abyss, the Melusine Master of the Utopian Weirdom of Cabalarkon, seizes control of Primeval Lilith, the ageless, seemingly unkillable Demon Queen of the Night. The eldritch earthborn is the real half-mother of the invariably mortal Sed-sons but, once she has hold of her, aka Lethal Lily, Master Morgan proceeds to trap the Moloch Sedon Himself.

In the midst of the bitter, century-long expansion of the Lathakran Empire, the Hidden Headworld's three tribes of devil-gods are forced to unite in an effort to release their All-Father. Unfortunately for them, they're initially unaware Master Morg, the Death's Head Hellion herself, has also got hold of the Trigregos Talismans, devic power foci that can actually kill devils, and Sedon's thought-father Cabalarkon, the Undying Utopian she'll happily slay if they dare attack her Weirdom.

Utopians from Weir have never given up seeking to wipe devils off not just the face of the Inner Earth, but off the planet itself. Their techno and biomages, under the direction of the Weirdom of Cabalarkon's extremely long-lived High Illuminary, Quoits Tethys, have determined there is only one sure way to do that -- namely, to infect the devils' Inner Earth worshippers with fatal plagues brought in from the Outer Earth.

Come All-Death Day there are more Dead Things Walking than Living Beings Talking. Believe it or not, that's the good news.

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phantacea Graphic Novels

Forever and Forty Days

- The Genesis of Phantacea -

Front cover of Forever and Forty Days; artwork by Ian Fry and Ian Bateson, ca 1990

Published in 1990; main webpage is here; ordering lynx are here

The Damnation Brigade

- Phantacea Revisited 1 -

Front cover of The Damnation Brigade, artwork by Ian Bateson, retouching by Chris Chuckry 2012

Published in 2013; main webpage is here; ordering lynx are here

Cataclysm Catalyst

- Phantacea Revisited 2 -

Front cover for Cataclysm Catalyst, artwork by Verne Andru, 2013

Published in 2014, main webpage is here; ordering lynx are here

Kadmon Heliopolis had one life. It ended in October 1968. The Male Entity has had many lives. In his fifth, he and his female counterpart, often known as Miracle Memory, engendered more so than created the Moloch Sedon. They believe him to be the Devil Incarnate. They've been attempting to kill him ever since. Too bad it's invariably he, Heliosophos (Helios called Sophos the Wise), who gets killed instead.

On the then still Whole Earth circa the Year 4000 BCE, one of their descendants, Xuthros Hor, the tenth patriarch of Golden Age Humanity, puts into action a thought-foolproof, albeit mass murderous, plan to succeed where the Dual Entities have always failed. He unleashes the Genesea. The Devil takes a bath.

Fifty-nine hundred and eighty years later, New Century Enterprises launches the Cosmic Express from Centauri Island. It never reaches Outer Space; not all of it anyhow. As a stunning consequence of its apparent destruction, ten extraordinary supranormals are reunited, bodies, souls and minds, after a quarter century in what they've come to consider Limbo. They name themselves the Damnation Brigade. And so it appears they are -- if perhaps not so much damned as doomed.

At least one person survives the launching of the Cosmic Express. He literally falls out of the sky -- on the Hidden Continent of Sedon's Head. An old lady saves him. Except this old lady lives in a golden pagoda, rides vultures and has a third eye. She also doesn't stay old long. He becomes her willing soldier, acquires the three Sacred Objects and goes on a rampage, against his own people, those that live.

Meanwhile, Centauri Island, the launch site of the Cosmic Express, comes under attack from Hell's Horsemen. Only it's not horses they ride. It's Atomic Firedrakes!

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The PHANTACEA Mythos Online: A Glossary of Characters

| Illustrated Character Companions for mini-novels extracted from "The 1000 Days of Disbelief" | The Shining Ones — The First and Second Generations of Devazurkind | The Shining Ones — Master Devas | The Shining Ones — Devils Described | PHANTACEA Essentials | Non-Devic Pivotal Players | Additional Non-Devic Characters | Deviants | Golden Age Patriarchs | Gypsies & Etocretans | Supranormals | Teutonic Templars | Utopians of Weir | Witches | The Moloch Sedon | The Thrygragos Brothers | The Trigregos Sisters | Byronics Listed | Lazaremists Listed | Mithradites Listed | Devils — by Tribal Affiliation | Celestial God | Recurring Dual Entities | Supranormals/Deviants by Group Affiliation | Places Peculiar to PHANTACEA | Terms Peculiar to PHANTACEA |

Devils and Saints, Supras and Deviants

| SOS -- The Sorority of Sausages | SOS -- The Society of Saints | The King's Own Crimefighters | Strife's Sinister Sisterhood | The King and Queen Conquerors | The Damnation Brigade | Silver Signallers | Preserved Masthead from late 2014 |

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GROUPS, ASSOCIATIONS, AFFILIATIONS

| pre-WW II | The Last of the Supranormals Sequences | Post-War Supra Groups | The Launch 1980 Cycle |

The Heliodyssey Sequences

- Starting in January 1938 -

| SOS -- The Sorority of Sausages | SOS -- The Society of Saints |

The Launching of the Cosmic Express Sequences

- November 29, 1980 until December 31, 1980 -

| Silver Signallers | The Damnation Brigade |

SOS -- The Sorority of Sausages

(January 13, 1938)

“We were charter members of the Society of Saints, Sentalli, and it was set up in early 1938, not 1943. By her — Jolene Callion, General ‘Huff’n’Puff’ Jollity!”

Hush cringed, then recovered and smiled beatifically. “I still have the corncob pipe.”

“You smoked?” His Enormity, who didn’t, sounded more horrified than outraged. Even if he knew everything there was to know about her, which he couldn’t have, it was impossible not to feel parental around such an innocent-looking little cutie.

“Still do, and not just tobacco either. And our SOS wasn’t the Society of Saints, Sea Stuff. Not the first one, recall.”

That took Thalassa aback. Then she too broke into a huge grin. Like her adoptive aunts, sisters and nieces to this day, like Mnemosyne, Gloriel, Claudia and Belificent in their days, when a female D’Angelo smiles the heavens alight. “The Sorority of Sausages. I’d forgotten about them.”

... from "Nuclear Dragons", Book Two (or Three) of the Launch 1980 story cycle
  1. General "Huff & Puff" Jollity
  2. Sea Stuff (Water Witch)
  3. Airhead (Weather Whiz)
  4. Kid Killjoy
  5. Wildman Dervish Furie (Werewolf in Shorts)
  6. Burning Hell (Torches for Arms)
  7. Telemax (Master of Tellies)
  8. Clair du Lune (Icicles for Arms, Winter Witch)
  9. Ginny Gemstone
  10. Circean

The Damnation Brigade

(December 1980)

As the dirt and dust settled, Maelstrom realized the sentient fog shrouding the atoll had dissipated. The island was no longer deserted either. Ten extraordinary-looking beings stood on the ground.

No, one wasn't standing. His feet weren't on the ground; he was levitating. It was this one, a hooded man in a monk’s coarse raiment, who spoke. Spoke straight into his mind.

“Greetings, Vayu Maelstrom, Devil Wind. I am Cerebrus David Ryne. In honour of both you, devil that you proclaim yourself and devil that you undeniably are, and where we find ourselves, thanks to you wholly ourselves again after a quarter century in Limbo, you may call us the Damnation Brigade.”

... from "The War of the Apocalyptics", Book One of the Launch 1980 story cycle
  • Cerebrus
  • Sea Goddess
  • Airealist
  • Wildman Dervish Furie
  • Wilderwitch
  • Untouchable Diver
  • Old Man Power
  • Blind Sundown
  • Raven's Head
  • Radiant Rider

The main online entry for D-Brig is here; use the search engine at the top of the page for many more entries re the individual members

SOS: The Society of Saints

(circa 1938 - 1945)

  1. Little Miss Fairy Chief (Trickster)
  2. Sea Goddess
  3. Airealist
  4. Kid Cemetary
  5. Wildman Dervish Furie
  6. Fisherwoman
  7. Delphi
  8. Raven Sundown
  9. Sorciere (Solace Sunrise)
  10. Thunderbird (Aquilla the Hunter)
  11. Granny Garuda (Kanin Nauroz)
  12. Mr. Brilliant (Immanuel Dark)
  13. Mr. Automatic (Droid Dulles)
  14. Mr. Attraction (Mesmer Hent)
  15. Oannes Atlantean
  16. Burning Hell (Brunhilde von Alptraum)
  17. Antigen/Antagone
  18. Constellation/Silverhair (Tanith von Blut)
  19. Living Ghost/Slipper (Roxanne Heliopolis Kinesis)
  20. Living Agate/Rainbow
  21. Headmistress (Virginia Mannering)
  22. Aegis-Jesus (Jesus Mandam)
  23. Untouchable Diver (Yehudi Cohen)
  24. Imam Immaterial
  25. Wood Wraith
  26. Prophet's Puppet
  27. Magus Maxius (Maxwell Dre'Ath)
  28. Mouthpiece (Mycroft Skullan)
  29. Chairman (Jubal Skullian)
  30. Sense Seer (Homer Skullan)
  31. Rage Mage
  32. Clair du Lune
  33. Emperor Energy
  34. Circean (later, the Queen of Spades -- Mnemosyne nee D'Angelo Heliopolis)
  35. Madam Midnight (Anita 'Nita' D'Angelo)
  36. Olympian (Agenor Heliopolis)
  37. Meg-Aura/Hellion Grudge (Megaera nee Kinesis Zeross)
  38. Ringkeeper (the first Ringleader, Angelo Zeross)
  39. Electra/Electrocretan (Laodice nee Atreides Hent)
  40. Pluman (Alexandros Kinesis)
  41. Black Death (Augustus Nauroz, later Auguste Moirnoir)
  42. Black Skull (Golgotha Nauroz)
  43. Illuminatus (Melina Sarpedon)
  44. Taddletale
  45. Scatterbrain (Apsyrtus Annulis)
  46. Serendipity Luck
  47. Celerity Luck
  48. Serenity Luck
  49. Anjungle, the Slimey Man (Anjou Plantagenet, also Detritus)

Silver Signallers

(circa 1978 - 1986)

It had only taken on a public face in the last two years or so – and then only in the form of circus-like ‘events’ put on by its operatives, its Signallers, once in a while. These events were all Hollywood flash, spectacle for the sake of spectacle, designed to show off its developing technology. No threat there, right?

Wrong! Looking deeper into it Cerebrus realized the technology System covertly commanded was way beyond the overt capabilities of today’s scientific, commercial and military elites. It didn't take much of a genius to figure out where it came from, or which genius it came from initially. There was no doubt in his mind it derived from discoveries made by his long dead cousin, Jesus Mandam (the Conqueror, King Conqueror or Conquering Christ).

... from "The War of the Apocalyptics", Book One of the Launch 1980 story cycle

Known Members

  • Strategos (Simon Lancz; not System but a System Seer as well as Signal System's public face; probable father: OJ Maxwell, not Donar Lancz; probable mother: Valfreja Volsung)
  • Shelter (a System Seer, behind-the-scenes main man behind Signal System)
  • Sharpshooter (later Silver Arrow, a System Seer, a fieldleader)
  • Styx (Jean 'Jackrabbit' Lapin, a System Seer)
  • Sasquatch (Samuel 'Bugbear' Barry, a System Seer)
  • Solar (Avatar Sol, a System Seer)
  • Spherus (Cecil Mayhew, a System Seer, adopted by Ted Mayhew and Polyanna Plantagenet, a clone of Jesus Mandam)
  • Selene (Sheila Skullian, a System Seer, daughter of Homer Skullan, married to Cecil Mayhew)
  • Sub-System (Terry Teller, a System Seer)
  • Savant (Joe Hartwig, a System Seer)
  • Space-Age Spartan (Gus Soldakis, a fieldleader)
  • Stupendo (Estefan Hidalgo, a one-time member of the Tempest Twins' Death Dodgers travelling roadshow of daredevils)
  • Stiletto (Nick Strecchi, once a Death Dodger)
  • Subitor (the second Jubal Skullian, son of the first, once a Death Dodger)
  • Solano (Oussama Modise, once a Death Dodger)
  • Splendour
  • Shadowswirl (Lil or Lilith 'Don't call me Lily' Dvina Morgan, once a Death Dodger)
  • Sapperstein (Abraham 'Abe' Sapperstein, once a Death Dodger)
  • Sapphire (Sapphire Lancz; probable father: Sedon St Synne, not Simon Lancz; probable mother: Tereza nee D'Angelo Lancz)
  • Sonora (Maria Tedesco, once a Death Dodger)
  • Softball
  • Sebastion (Sebastian Powers, once a Death Dodger)
  • Severants
  • Sheriff (Tex Cross, once a Death Dodger)
  • Static (Zenobia Hent)
  • Sirocco
  • Spelaean
  • Solenoid
  • Stampede
  • Somnambulancz (the Young Baron, Günter von Alptraum)
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The Last of the Supranormals Sequences

| The King's Own Crimefighters | The Sinister Sisterhood |

Miscellaneous Supra Groups

| The King and Queen Conquerors | The Supranormal Defence League |

KOC: The King's Own Crimefighters

(circa 1946 - 1949; 1951- 1955)
  • Magus Maxius (Maxwell Dre'Ath)
  • Mr Attraction (Mesmer Hent)
  • Electrocretan (Elektra Snapzap)
  • Pluman (Alexandros Kinesis)
  • Slipper (Roxanne nee Heliopolis Kinesis)
  • Olympian II (Megaera nee Kinesis Zeross)
  • Olympian III (Demonites Zeross)
  • Sea Goddess (Thalassa D'Angelo)
  • Airealist (Aires D'Angelo)
  • Winterlady (Claudia D'Angelo)
  • Klarion (Gabriel D'Angelo)
  • Radiant Rider (Gloriella nee D'Angelo Dark)
  • Amoebaman
  • Kid Cemetary
  • Wildman Dervish Furie (Gentleman Jervis Murray)
  • Rocket Richards (later Rocket Red)
  • Lady Lemurian (Amphitrite ...)
  • Oannes Atlantean
  • Sorciere (Solace born Sunrise become Sundown)
  • Thunderbird (Aquilla the Hunter)
  • Cerebrus (David Ryne)
  • Mr Brilliant (Immanuel Dark)
  • Stealth
  • Mr Automatic (Andrew 'Droid' Dulles)
  • Wilderwitch (sometimes called Cynthemis Dyana)
  • Untouchable Diver (Yehudi Cohen)
  • Crimson Corona (born Takeda Mikoto, become Corona Power)
  • Old Man Power (OMP - Obadiah Melvin Power)

Strife's Sinister Sisterhood

(circa 1946 - 1949)

  • Faceless Strife (real identity unknown, probably Marut Kanin, aka Kore-Discord, in a variety of shells, all of whom would be the daughters of Sed-sons)
  • Sagitta (Artemis Zeross, the Silver Arrow killed on Sakhalin in February 1945)
  • Slipper (Roxanne 'Hot Rox' Kinesis)
  • Solenoid (Laodice Atreides then Hent, formerly Electrocretan, Elektra Snapzap, the Bolt-Whip Babe)
  • Swarma (East Indian supra once known as Quinsecto)
  • Sylph Peri, an air sprite hopelessly in love with Aires D'Angelo)
  • Selkie
  • Serendipity Luck (Serena Gluck, a Swiss supra)
  • Serenity Luck
  • Soanso (Summoning Child wife of Prince Translav, mother of Connie Lindquist)
  • Sanguinary (Tisiphone Soldakis, mother of Gus, once codenamed Nemesis, then became Stitch)
  • Sandy (Sandra Samsara, a materialist)
  • Sister Siren (Sabian Matterawail, a loudmouth)
  • Sister Sludge, a muck monster connected to the Plantagenets
  • Slopsam (connected to Vanalana Wheatstalk, Lazareme's Harvest Queen)
  • Sister Slumber (connected to Mordira Faeriedust)
  • Sicko, also Sister Succubus (connected to Valfreja Volsung's Milady Malaise personna)
  • Succubus Doll (Sicko's surrogate, connected to Tralalorn, the Demon Child)
  • Simple Simone
  • Spectral Spectrum (connected to Emperor Chameleon, the Lake Lands' Devic Dand and the Lizarados' colourful Devil-God)
  • Sapphire-Sappho
  • Savage Salvage
  • Speculum Spectre (Klannit Thanatos animating the corpse of Mirror Black Obsidianna)

 

The King and Queen Conquerors

(circa 1951 - 1953)

  • The Conquering Christ (probably Jesus Mandam, possibly over-coated by Daemonicus)
  • The Queen Conqueror (either Ramona Avar or Meroudys Maenad or both, probably possessed by Strife)
  • Electrocretan
  • Olympian III (Demonites Zeross)
  • The Tombstone Kid (formerly both Kid Cemetary and Kid Killjoy)
  • Magnifico (Saul 'Psycho' Ryne)
  • Mr Brilliant (Immanuel Dark)
  • Klarion (Gabriel D'Angelo)
  • Mr Miniature (once Magnus Minus)
  • Serendipity Luck
  • Rocket Red (Yuri Topol)
  • Snow Bear (Ursula Topol)
  • The Hooded Headsman
  • Radiant Rider (Gloriella nee D'Angelo Dark)
  • The Sleeping Giant (Nicholas Gagarin, ex Soviet Supra Supreme)
  • Duststorm (Pavlov Samarand, ex Soviet Supra Supreme)
  • Sarcophogus (Nelson Smith, a Boer)
  • Sandra Samsara (a materialist)
  • Ching Li (the Manchurian Mandrake)
  • Pretty Pollen (Polyanna Plantagenet, the Mandrake's wife)

The Supranormal Defence League (SDL)

(circa 1952/53)

  • Magnifico (Saul 'Psycho' Ryne)
  • Pluman (Alexandros Kinesis)
  • Slipper (Roxanne nee Heliopolis Kinesis)
  • Mr Brilliant (Immanuel Dark)
  • Radiant Rider (Gloriella nee D'Angelo Dark)
  • Wilderwitch
  • Wildman Dervish Furie (Gentleman Jervis Murray)
  • Sea Goddess (Thalassa D'Angelo)
  • Airealist (Aires D'Angelo)
  • Klarion (Gabriel D'Angelo)
  • The Morrigan or White Witch (Morgianna born Nauroz become Somata Sarpedon)
  • The Ace of Spades, once Blackguard (Demios Sarpedon, Morgianna's husband)
  • The Slimy Man (Anjou Plantagenet)
  • Fisherwoman (Fish, Scylla Nereid, later Lady Achigan)
  • Oannes Atlantean
  • The Untouchable Diver (Yehudi Cohen)
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Preserved Masthead from 2014

| 2014: "Helios on the Moon" | 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" | Start Page Proper |

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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

What might have been, will be for sure in 2014

Two versions of Rhadamanthys Revealed, art by Verne Andru, 1980-2013

Cover(s) by Verne Andru, 1980/2-2013; text by Jim McPherson, 2014

BTW, pHz-1 #12 only exists in script form; Kitty-Clysm is pH-Webworld shorthand for "Cataclysm Catalyst";

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Cataclysm Catalyst

Cover art by Verne Andru

Phantacea Revisited 2

Now 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.

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What was once, will be again

Helios on the Moon, bw versions of front cover for pH-3, art by Richard Sandoval, 1978

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 "Helios on the Moon"

pH-3 artwork by Richard Sandoval, 1978; rollover adjustments made by Jim McPherson, 2013

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Phantacea Seven

- The unpublished comic now novelized -

pages 1 and 2, artwork by Ian Bateson, 1980

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

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Look out below!

Full covers for Nuclear Dragons, art by Ian Bateson, 2013; text by Jim McPherson

Nuclear Dragons are here!

- A phantacea Mythos Mosaic Novel -

Jim McPherson continues his ongoing project to novelize the entire Phantacea comic book series

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Dedicated 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 "Helios on the Moon", here; for the time being its Auctorial Preamble is reprinted here and here

Centauri Island

- The web-serial enlarged radically -

pages 3 and 4, artwork by Ian Bateson, 1980

Ian Bateson's unpublished artwork from Phantacea Seven provides the basis for the first full-length phantacea Mythos Mosaic Novel since "Goddess Gambit".

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.

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Phantacea Revisited 1

B/w first and last pages from DB graphic novel

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NEW: Read most of the mini-novels making up "The Thousand Days of Disbelief" today on Google Books

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Text reads Graphic Novel coming soon or here

Phantacea Revisited 1: The Damnation Brigade"

A Watermarked PDF of the graphic novel can be ordered from Drive Thru Comics here

To order from the publisher, click here or go straight to here.

Postage is extra. Please be aware that as yet Phantacea Publications can only accept certified cheques or money orders.

The Damnation Brigade Graphic Novel

artwork by Ian Bateson and Vince Marchesano

Artwork never seen before in print; almost all of pH-5 available for the first time since 1980

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No wonder they call themselves the Damnation Brigade

Variations of DB cover, artwork by Ian Bateson, 2012, collage by Jim McPherson, 2012

Now available from Phantacea Publications

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Two Damnation Brigade Collages, 2009, 2012

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The Phantacea Revisited Project

D-Brig covers

Collecting the Phantacea comic books 1977-1980, 1987, Rv1:DB contains material from pH #s 1-5 + pHz1 #s 1 & 2.

This will be the first time in the better part of 30 years that material from pH-5 has been available except from online traders.

Watch for "Phantacea Revisited #2: Cataclysm Catalyst" coming in the Spring of 2014

 

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Get hold of "Phantacea Revisited 1: The Damnation Brigade", a graphic novel collecting the DB-storyline from pH 1-5, as well as Phantacea Phase One #s 1 & 2 (unpublished) now available for ordering from Phantacea Publications

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"Goddess Gambit"

– Now available from Phantacea Publications –

Eyemouth over cover for Gambitsedonic eyes"For the Dead to Thrive, the Living must Die!"

So proclaims Nergal Vetala, the Blood Queen of Hadd.

When her soldier falls out of the sky she's not only back in the pink again – as in arterial – she reckons she's found the perfect foil through which to play, and win, a Trigregos Gambit.

She might be right as well.

Thus Ends 'The Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories' Trilogy


For more on the actual celestial phenomena upon which the eye-collages were based, click here. There's additional information re the Sedonic Eye here and here. The complete cover for Phase One #1 is here whereas yet another variation of it is here. The left eye double-click is the full cover for "Goddess Gambit", artwork by Verne Andru 2011/2. The right eye double-click is of Ian Bateson's enduring, 1986 Sedonic Eye as prepared by Jim McPherson, 2011. Gambit's main webpage is here.

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"The 1000 Days of Disbelief" is not only 3/3rds Done, it's E-done (albeit for Kindle, not kidding nor kindling)

In part to celebrate the 35th Year of Anheroic Fantasy, Phantacea Publications is pleased to announce that "Feeling Theocidal", Book One of the trilogy, and all three mini-novels extracted from 1000-Daze are available on the Kindle platform from amazon.com and a number its affiliates worldwide.

Alternative covers for Goddess Gambitcovers and characters from Janna FangfingersSubtitled Sedonplay, Sedon Plague and Sedon Purge, the mini-novels commence, continue and conclude Book Two of 'The Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories' trilogy.

Watch for e-versions of Book Three, "Goddess Gambit", and its full-length predecessor in the Launch 1980 story cycle, "The War of Apocalyptics", coming soon from Phantacea Publications.

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Like the first two mini-novels extracted from 1000-Daze, "The Death's Head Hellion" and "Contagion Collectors", "Janna Fangfingers" contains a book-specific character companion. An Auctorial Prefatory and the opening chapter extracted from Gambit round out a 230-page volume bargain-priced at only $12.00 per book CAD and USD, vastly less as an e-book.

(Please note: although their character companions are for the most part applicable to Feel Theo, in large measure they're not so much so to either War-Pox or Gambit, which tend to feature characters more prevalent in the phantacea comic books and web-serials.)

Together they carry on recording the multi-millennia-long chronicles of the gods and goddesses, the demons and monsters, of antique mythologies — the same seemingly endless saga also presented in the 1990 graphic novel, "Forever & 40 Days — The Genesis of phantacea", and the three, thus-far-published, full-length mosaic novels featuring Jim McPherson's Phantacea Mythos.

Variations on covers prepared for Goddess Gambit

Each of the mini-novels is complete unto itself. Among many another character, they feature Thrygragos Everyman and his firstborn Unities (the incomparable Harmony, Thunder & Lightning Lord Order and Uncle Abe Chaos) in their freewheeling prime. On top of that, Fangers presents a framing story set in 5980 Year of the Dome. As such it could be considered a prequel to the Launch 1980 story cycle that began in earnest with War-Pox and eventually picks up again in Gambit.

[Check out www.phantacea.com for extracts, synopses, teasers, and a grab bag of even more intriguing graphics pertinent to Phantacea Publications' 35th anniversary.]

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Cover for the Death's Head Hellion, artwork prepared by Jim McPherson, 2010Cover for the Contagion Collectors, artwork prepared by Jim McPherson, 2010

"Forever & 40 Days — The Genesis of PHANTACEA", a graphic novel with additional features written by Jim McPherson, "Feeling Theocidal" (Book One of 'The Thrice Cursed Godly Glories'), "The War of the Apocalyptics" (the opening entry in the Launch 1980 story cycle), the three mini-novels, "The Death's Head Hellion", "Contagion Collectors" and "Janna Fangfingers", that comprise "The 1000 Days of Disbelief" (Book Two of 'The Thrice Cursed Godly Glories'), the trilogy's concluding novel, "Goddess Gambit", the graphic novel "Phantacea Revisited 1: The Damnation Brigade", "Nuclear Dragons"(the second, full-length entry in the Launch 1980 story cycle), plus the latest graphic novel, "Phantacea Revisited 2: Cataclysm Catalyst", and "Helios on the Moon", the culminating entry in the Launch 1980 story cycle, should be available at your favourite book stops.

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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Covers for Feeling Theocidal and Forever and Forty DaysTwo Ian  Bateson covers of the same scene

Individual copies of "Feeling Theocidal", "The War of the Apocalyptics", the three mini-novels comprising "The Thousand Days of Disbelief" ("The Death's Head Hellion", "Contagion Collectors" and "Janna Fangfingers") and "Goddess Gambit" can be ordered from amazon.com and its affiliates, including amazon.ca and amazon.co.uk, as well as from Barnes & Noble.

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 "Feeling Theocidal", as built specifically for Adobe Reader, is available direct from the publisher. (Certified cheques or money orders only, please.) E-books on other platforms are also available. Check you favourite online bookseller for the latest list and ordering instructions for Phantacea Publications.

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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