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Phantacea Publications in Print

- The 'Launch 1980' story cycle - 'The Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories' Fantasy Trilogy - The '1000 Days' Mini-Novels - The phantacea Graphic Novels -

The 'Launch 1980' Story Cycle

The War of the Apocalyptics

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

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

Nuclear Dragons

Nuclear Dragons front cover, artwork by Ian Bateson, 2013

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

Helios on the Moon

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

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

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

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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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What might have been, will be for sure in 2014

Cover(s) by Verne Andru, 1980-2013; 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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Phantacea Revisited 2: Cataclysm Catalyst

Cataclysm Catalyst front and back cover in black and white, art by Verne Andru

The third graphic novel from Phantacea Publications extracts another complete story sequence from Phantacea 1-7 and Phantacea Phase One #1. Includes artwork by Dave Sim, Ian Fry, Sean Newton, Verne Andrusiek, and Ian Bateson. Dedicated webpage is here. Order online or from the publisher.

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What was once, will be again

Thirty-six years after its original release, Jim McPherson completes his Launch 1980 project to novelize all the Phantacea comic books with the release of "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 -

At long last, the second entry in the Launch 1980 epic fantasy has arrived

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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 -

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

Check out the expanded Availability Listings for places you can order or buy Phantacea Publications in person

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

Hit here to see what else is currently available there

Guess what isn't coming soon any more?

Phantacea Revisited 1: The Damnation Brigade"

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

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 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

Now available from Phantacea Publications

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The 2006 PDF of Mythos Mag, with its updated 2012 lynx, can be downloaded here.

Hit here for a Really Simple Syndication (RSS) of the most recent pHantaBlog entries

The Phantacea Revisited Project

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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Contribute to the all-new pHantaBlog and download a free PDF of Mythos Mag #1 while you're at it
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

Get hold of `"Cataclysm Catalyst"`, the second Phantacea Revisited graphic novel collecting the Soldier's Saga from pH 2-6, as well as Ian Bateson's unpublished Hell's Horsemen sequence intended for Phantacea Seven, now available for ordering from Phantacea Publications

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"Goddess Gambit"

– Now available from Phantacea Publications –

"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.

Subtitled 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.

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, 2010

Cover 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 Days

Two 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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Full Cover for pH Phase 1, art by Ian Bateson, 1986

-- The Launch 1980 Web-Serials --

CENTAURI ISLAND

WAR OF THE APOCALYPTICS

THE TRIGRE GOS GAMBIT

HELIOS ON THE MOON

The Launching of the Cosmic Express Story Sequences

- 'Centauri Island' starts it; 'The War of the Apocalyptics' continues it -

Introductory Comment

If this is where you start your regular perusal of PHANTACEA on the Web, you might notice some changes. Previously as many as five story sequences have been serialized out here in Cyberia. Now there's a definite sixth, -- to go along with the two that are still progressing.

Book IV of 'The Launching of the Cosmic Express' Tetralogy, 'Helios on the Moon', the not-at-all semi-solitary sequel of 'Centauri Island', 'The War of the Apocalyptics', and 'The Trigregos Gambit', is that sixth. And, when it's done, there may not be any more!

Fact is, Moon not only concludes the four Launch Serials, it ends all of them. As well as itself! How can that be? Easy. Turns out the endings of the other three books are just semi-significant chapters leading up to Moon's ultimate ending. Got that? Good.

Actually I shouldn't be such a tease. As good as Moon is, it's not that bad. Needless to say, there's always more. Simply no end to PHANTACEA on the Web is there? And why should there be? Endings are just new beginnings after all.

Even when Moon ends -- maybe before it does -- I'll be mounting 'Ringleader's Revenge', a stand-alone prequel to Island, Gambit & Moon on the Web. And after that? Put it this way: given the opportunity I'll still be writing PHANTACEA well after the start of the next millennium. The one after 2001 AD!

Usual point being, you may or may not have been following all three of the initial installments of the Launch serials. In fact, you may only be following this page and its synoptic attachments. Which would make you a bit of chapter cheater!

So, why not download and/or print up each installment as it appears and read it at your leisure? Better yet order your favourite series and get the (latest) completed version on disk.

Enough the commercial plug. You can go straight to the full body of this page, the really old stuff of Moloch and War, the still on-going stuff of Island and Gambit, or Moon, the related, relative newcomer. In other words, you can bop over to the story sequence that appeals to you the most.

From wherever that is you can leap to synopses of the chapters you may have missed, -- not that the most recent installments of each segment of the PHANTACEA Mythos will always be synopsized by then. Don't want make things too easy for you, do I?

Oh yeah, before I forget, what's Thalassa D'Angelo's altered image still doing up here now that 'The War of the Apocalyptics' is long over? Turns out, first of all, Sea's about to turn up in Island as a featured character and, second of all, her siblings are going to turn up eventually in Moon. (Her siblings, it should be noted, at least according to some.)

Besides, given some of PHANTACEA's ever-revolving cast of usual suspects, who's to say her last name doesn't refer to 'of the fallen angels' variety anyhow? Certainly not me!

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CENTAURI ISLAND

-- The Web Serial --

'The Worldwide Order with the Right to Life and Death' thinks it has destroyed the Cosmic Express. Its next task is the destruction of Alpha Centauri's Island. But first WORLD wants its secrets. And its master scientists: Professor Romaine Kinesis and Doctor Hiyati Samarand in particular. Daemonicus could care less about Centauri Island any more. Or the Worldwide Order, for that matter. The horrifying, shadow-cloaked, Satan-skinned, three-eyed wraith is quite prepared to unleash Sharkczar, Crystallion, Hell's Horsemen, and whatever else is on the Phantom Freighter floating, -- better make that flitting --, in and out of somehow nearby between-space with or without WORLD's cooperation!

Who or what can stop them? The Menace on the Moon? Signal System? Supra-Clones? Loxus Abraham Ryne, the eighty year old head of SPACE, -- 'The Society for the Prevention of Alien Control of Earth'? A couple of middle-aged, newly-become supranormals named Doc Defiance and Mr. NoName? A twenty-seven year old who neither knows who his parents were nor what an AmoebaMan was? An obesity who knows far more than he should but is disinclined to share that knowledge with anyone, not even his own son? Or maybe, just maybe, a notorious little trickster who has been seven years old for something like sixty years!

There are lots of other malicious forces at work in late November, early December, 1980 however, -- some neither of WORLD nor entirely of this world. To find out what they are, follow the saga of Abe Ryne, Rom Kinesis, Big Max Maxwell, Dolph Dulles, Alpha Centauri, Yataghan Sentalli, and Hush Mannering every month in 'Centauri Island'.

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'Centauri Island'

"Mind Tap"
"O.J. Maxwell"
"Double Devastation"
"The Gypsium Man"
"The Indescribale Mr. No Name"
"Dead Live'; Living Die"
"Loxus Abraham Ryne"
"The Strife Sorority"
"The Houston Academy of Man"
"Daemonicus Demystified"
"Magnifico Munched"
"Amoeba Man"
"Doubleman Singlular"
"Dragon Fires"
"Seventeen Signallers"
"Hell's Horsemen"

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THE WAR OF THE APOCALYPTICS

-- The Web Serial --

Most devils have not been, let alone seen, on the Outer Earth, not in number, for upwards of thirty-five hundred years. On Damnation Island, in the frozen Aleutian Chain of Alaskan Islets, that is about to change. The Four Apocalyptics, -- War, Death, Disease, and Disaster --, along with the two-headed, entirely monstrous Vultyrie and Granite-Breath, Demon Land, have just escaped from the Cathonic Zone. Trouble is these decathonitized devils have lost their bodies; are just Spirit Beings again.

They need sentient, preferably human, shells to possess in order to manifest their might. Find them too. Unfortunately for the Apocalyptics and their two allies, they may have met their match in their own shells, -- the newly self-christened and perhaps thereby self-doomed Damnation Brigade!

Set simultaneously with 'The Trigregos Gambit', 'Helios on the Moon', and 'Centauri Island' in November/December 1980, follow the saga of the likes of OMP, Wilderwitch, the Elemental Twins, Carcinogen the Leper, and Mother Murder every month in 'The War of the Apocalyptics'.

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'The War of the Apocalyptics'

"Mindtap"
"Devil Wind"
"Advent of the Apocalyptics"
"Homecoming"
"Cerebrus David Ryne"
"Inner Demons"
"Damnation Disturbed"
"Family Affairs"
"The Byronic Nucleus"
"Centurium"
"The Apocalyptic of War"
"The Apocalyptic of Disease"
"The Faerie Garden"
"The Apocalyptic of Disaster"
"The Trigregos Gambit"
"The Apocalyptic Nucleus"

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'Centauri Island' formed the basis for the full-length Phantacea Mythos novel entitled "Nuclear Dragons". Hit here for lynx to notes and graphics prepared for 'Nuck-Drags' and here for graphics prepared for the full-length 'War-Pox' novel ; notes for the Cliffheadl page background are now here

Welcome to the LAUNCHING of the COSMIC EXPRESS Introductory Synopses Webpage

Phantacea Publications in Print

- The 'Launch 1980' story cycle - 'The Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories' Fantasy Trilogy - The '1000 Days' Mini-Novels - The phantacea Graphic Novels -

The 'Launch 1980' Story Cycle

The War of the Apocalyptics

Nuclear Dragons

Helios on the Moon

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'The Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories' Epic Fantasy

Feeling Theocidal

The 1000 Days of Disbelief

Goddess Gambit

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The '1000 Days' Mini-Novels

The Death's Head Hellion

Contagion Collectors

Janna Fangfingers

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phantacea Graphic Novels

Forever and Forty Days

The Damnation Brigade

Cataclysm Catalyst

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What might have been, will be for sure in 2014

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

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Phantacea Revisited 2: Cataclysm Catalyst

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What was once, will be again

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

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Phantacea Seven

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Nuclear Dragons are here!

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

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Centauri Island

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Phantacea Revisited 1

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Phantacea Revisited 1: The Damnation Brigade"

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The Damnation Brigade Graphic Novel

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No wonder they call themselves the Damnation Brigade

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The Phantacea Revisited Project

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Get hold of "Cataclysm Catalyst", the second Phantacea Revisited graphic novel collecting the Soldier's Saga from pH 2-6, as well as Ian Bateson's unpublished Hell's Horsemen sequence intended for Phantacea Seven, now available for ordering from Phantacea Publications

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"Goddess Gambit"

"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

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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.

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(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.)

[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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-- The Launch 1980 Web-Serials --

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The Launching of the Cosmic Express Story Sequences

- 'Centauri Island' starts it; 'The War of the Apocalyptics' continues it -

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CENTAURI ISLAND

Get hold of `"Cataclysm Catalyst"`, the second Phantacea Revisited graphic novel collecting the Soldier's Saga from pH 2-6, as well as Ian Bateson's unpublished Hell's Horsemen sequence intended for Phantacea Seven, now available for ordering from Phantacea Publications

Thus Ends `'The Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories'` Trilogy

`"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.

(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.)

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