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Jim McPherson's PHANTACEA Mythos Online
Prose Novel Published in 2008Graphic Novel Published in 1990 |
Animated GIF prepared by Jim McPherson, 2002 |
Prose Novel Published in 2009Phase One #2 cover never published©Copyright Jim McPherson (www.phantacea.com) 2010 |
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Introductory Remarks | Graphics prepared for the Launch 1980 Story Cycle | Actual and Potential
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Welcome to the Home Picture Gallery |
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![[Animated Phantacea on the Web log prepared on Photoshop by Jim McPherson, 2002]](graphicimages/ancollage4.gif)
Introductory RemarksPHANTACEA on the Web began in 1996. Although I tend to call it Jim McPherson's PHANTACEA Mythos Online these days, it still has two primary purposes. Firstly, it provides a web-presence whereby I can advertise print publications, such as 'Feeling Theocidal' and 'War of the Apocalyptics', as well as back issues of the PHANTACEA Comic Books and Graphic Novel, that are still available for purchase. Even though phantacea.com covers a fair bit of that role these days, pH-Webworld still contains a great deal of background information. Almost all of it is accessible from here, here and of course here, the very webpage you're currently perusing. Secondly, it gives me an opportunity to serialize chapters and, indeed, entire novels featuring the aforementioned PHANTACEA Mythos. With those serials (cereals or Web Wheaties, as I sometimes refer to them, howsoever lamely) come synopses for chapters that have come and gone. That's a dot-ditto for the few that keep on going and going, which are listed here. Early on I started adding a graphics component. Mostly these consisted of photos I took during various 'Travels in my Pants' (TIMP), many of which can now be found on a different website. In time, though, I developed some small ability of my own when it came to preparing collages and suchlike specific to the PHANTACEA Mythos. There are now dozens, if not hundreds, of these graphics out here in Cyberia. [NOTE: Google.ca supplies what amounts to a pH-Webworld web gallery. Just go to http://www.google.ca/, hit the images link and type in PHANTACEA. Not all of what comes up link to one of my three websites but most do. As for the others, well, for the most part I have no idea why google displays them.] What follows is the start of my own version of a pH-Webworld graphics gallery. |
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Graphics Illustrating Aspects of the Launch 1980 Story Cycle| Spooky Jolts of Stellar Similarities | Actual and Potential Cover for - double-click on the graphics in this table and a new window with enlarged images should open - |
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Spooky Jolts of Stellar Similariities |
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Shot of part of the Helix Nebula that's been nicknamed 'The Eye of God'
The double-click takes you to the same image, albeit meshed with the Sedonic Eye-Mouth For more on the so-called Eye of God, check out Stellar Serendipity |
'The Hand of God', as taken by NASA's Chandra X-ray observatory.
At present, the projected Launch 1980 story cycle contains three novels. They are: For more on the so-called Hand of God check out Stellar Serendipity |
Peter Lynde's Cosmicaptain Starrus and the Hand of Son-Shine, from pH-3
All three novels in the projected Launch 1980 story cycle are based on the comic books and novels previously serialized out here in Cyberia. That said, by the time they attain the status of phantacea Mythos print publications, they may be much different than their predecessors of the same titles. For more of Starrus and Son-Shine check out Stellar Serendipity |
The Mighty Eye-Mouth in the Sky
For more on the Sedonic Eye-Mouth, check out Stellar Serendipity |
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Ian Bateson's original cover for phantacea Phase One #2
Bateson redid this cover from 1985/6, albeit in full colour, for |
War-Pox Covers Rollover
Published and Unpublished Front and Back Covers for
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A sample of Ian Bateson's artwork for PHANTACEA Phase One #2
Although the issue never saw the light of day, photocopies of Bateson's artwork have survived and appear in pH-Webworld |
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War-Pox Graphics |
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Mater Matare, the self-proclaimed Apocalyptic of Death, has four arms and three eyes but she's still phantacea's Medusa
As Mother Murder, she gets much more of a run in War-Pox than she did in Feel Theo. Nonetheless, motherly as she may be, even her own siblings likely wouldn't consider her heroic. As for her devic children, hey, that's why the Byronic Nucleus brought D-Brig to the Inner Earth -- to stop her having any. There are more Medusas here and here |
Collage made up of images suggestive of the Damnation Brigade
D-Brig are the closest thing War-Pox has in terms of heroes. Which isn't surprising since phantacea has been spotlighting Anheroic Fantasy in print since 1977. The double-click is a collage containing images I reckon suggestive of two other members of D-Brig: Blind Sundown and Raven's Head; its main shout is here |
Collage made up of images suggestive of the four Apocalyptics and their two allies
The double-click is a shot of a Kali-type that I took while in India in 2005. It first appeared in the Anheroic Fantasy photo essay and reminds me of what Mater Matare looks like in War-Pox if perhaps not so much so in Feel Theo. |
Wildman Dervish Furie is proof positive that phantacea's heroes are definitely of the anheroic variety
The faun mask, one of a number, that I spotted in Guatemala Antigua was but one of many serendipitous sightings I preserved here. The double-click brings up the back cover for pH-3, artwork by Ian Bateson, 1978.It depicts Sea Goddess's howsoever fleeting victory over the Apocalyptics. |
![[Wooden plate of a wolf-woman suggestive of Wilderwitch and her fearsome soul-self as found on in a vendor's sidewalk display in Montreal, Canada, PHOTO BY JIM MCPHERSON, Year 2000]](graphicimages/Medusas.jpg)
![[Mask of a faun as photographed in Antigua Guatemala by Jim McPherson, Year 2001]](graphicimages/furmask1.jpg)
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THE POTENTIAL COVERS GALLERY
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The Sedonshem Landing |
As Jordy might say: "Be a goose and have a gander at the full cover. Then order the graphic novel for only $10.00, plus shipping costs!"
Sequence featuring Jordan Tethys from |
"Nuke Weirstar!" |
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The Black Rose of Anarchy
... from pH-3, published in 1978 Returns and remainders of the 1st four issues of the PHANTACEA comic book series can still be ordered for $5.00 an issue, plus shipping costs! |
Sample Artwork from the Comics & Graphic Novel
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Doc Defiance, the Gypsium Man
... from pH-2, published in 1978 Returns and remainders of the 1st four issues of the PHANTACEA comic book series can still be ordered for $5.00 an issue, plus shipping costs! |
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Helios threatening to destroy 'fascistes'
... from pH-3, published in 1978 |
Rhadamanthys Revealed
... potential cover for reprint of pH-6 (unpublished) |
Anti-Patriarch Cain raising the Golden Calf
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The Byronhead encounters the Apocalyptic Nucleus
... from pH-5, published in 1980 |
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![[IMAGE OF DOC DEFIANCE, FROM PH-2]](graphicimages/docdef1.jpg)
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![[SIDE SHOT OF TWO COLOSSI REMINISCENT OF THE DUAL ENTITIES TAKEN OUTSIDE THE GREAT TEMPLE OF ABU SIMBEL, EGYPT, PHOTO BY JIM MCPHERSON, 2000]](graphicimages/abubig1.jpg)
![[Mask of a faun as photographed in Antigua Guatemala by Jim McPherson, Year 2001]](graphicimages/afriall1.jpg)
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Closing CommentsMouse-overs provide details on the graphics. In the case of artwork for the comics and graphic novel, mouse-overs provide the name of the artist. Particularly in the case of some of the collages and potential covers I occasionally incorporate images taken from the web, or scanned in from books, in my library. Virtually everything else reproduced on this page are my own photographs. There are over 60 lynx on this page. Except for those in the masthead, and those that double-click for an enlargement, every one of them opens up a new browser page. That way you can chance a glance at the graphic in its natural setting, pause to read text pertinent to the pix, and/or follow the other day-glow lynx on whichever webpage I've directed you. So long as you keep the home and prime picture gallery page open, you can get back here whenever you close down the last one you're looking at. The easiest way to navigate PHANTACEA on the Web is to start at either the Main Menu page or the Ongoing PHANTACEA Features page. They both have approaching exhaustive lists providing overviews and lynx to the entire website. The Main Main page also has a frame link, which I keep meaning to get rid of, but never get around to doing, because I still find it rather useful, in a redundant sort of way. The 2002-2006 Online Primer Page is here. For what's new this season be a goose and have a gander at the Web Publisher's Commentary. A related website, albeit one focusing more on my travels than on my writings, is here whereas, in case you've somehow missed all the previous lynx to it, www.phantacea.com concentrates on the material I've thus far print-published. Be forewarned, though, there are so many direct quotes from 'Feeling Theocidal' on it you almost don't have to buy the book. (Just kidding. BUY IT NOW!) The same 'BUY IT NOW!' plea now applies to Not without a spoiler warning. Lest I forget, I'm still selling issues 1 to 4 of the PHANTACEA Comic Books as well as the PHANTACEA Graphic Novel. Check out the Ordering Information then email me for instructions on how to load up. Certified cheques or money orders only, please. (BTW, both Feel Theo and War-Pox can also be ordered by credit card.) |
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Information re ordering all-prose PHANTACEA Mythos novels online via credit cardsDownloadable order form
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