All right, so I cloned in the 3rd eye. Artist's name is Egon Schiele A contemporary of Gustav Klimt, the Wikipedia webpage re him is here. If he was still around I'd hire him. He's captured the relationship between Nergal Vetala and Janna become Fangfingers damn near perfectly — emphasis on 'damn'. There are all sorts of deviants in Daze. In truth they tend to dominate proceedings throughout much of the novel or mini-novels, as reality has presented itself.
I'll have to get back to you as to where most of the collage's components came from, but I do want to note especially that I didn't shoot the fellow with the quill in any museum. Tomcat Tattletail is the faerie-type Harmony's so enamoured with in Hellion especially. There's more on him here , here , here , here , here and here. As you may have already noticed, I used the same image, which I shot in NYC , again in the collage next door.
With respect to the Tura reproduced here , I've commented on it here and here , no doubt among a number of other places by now. He claims he met Cosme Tura while visiting Italy sometime previous to the eventful midsummer's night of YD. Which, I might add, is entirely plausible given Tura's dates ca. What's definitely a, um, phantacea pHact is that Jordy believes Tura must have been on the Inner Earth at some point in time relatively then-recently. Sooth said, they do a lot more than frolic feverishly — and I'm not just referring to how fabulously they play the syrinx or panpipes while more like prancing about than dancing.
For one thing, if this collage can be trusted which it can't , they also seem to float contentedly once they're done whatever they were doing ever so feverishly. It all has to do with the pheromones they secrete, you see. In Hellion they are, to say the least, positively demonic. As for why this collage can't be trusted, as both Harmony and her triplet brother, Lord Order, discover in Hellion , metamorphic demons do fauns just as well as they do anything else — which isn't perfect but certainly is well enough for the moment.
Simultaneously, or at least almost in the same moment, Uncle Abe and Bedazzling Belialma discover denim-demons can do double-duty as panting pants. All in all, they'd thereafter all agree, if they got the chance, it's a very hardening experience all around. Except, that is, for phantacea 's most famous fauna, Pusan Wanderlust. I took this picture of one such painting unaccredited as near as I could discover in New York City's Metropolitan Museum in A clickable version of the map is on the Peculiar Places page whereas the more than just moderately amazing story of what I spotted in Cairo's Egyptian Museum is retold here and here.
There's more on Magnus Minus, who appears as a daemonic demiurge in Hellion , here , here , here and here.
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I used it on Hellion 's cover as well as on the mock-up I prepared for Daze , two versions of which can be seen here. Fuseli called her Great Night so how could I not choose her to stand in for one of phantacea 's most misunderstood stand-outs? Below Lunatic Lily who's still a mass murderer no matter how justifiable her actions could be considered , the Smiling Fiend , or someone similar, seems to be in one of his two-eyed Daemonicus moments.
I took it from a postcard I bought in Germany back in whereas the background is from a postcard I bought in Sintra, Portugal, on that same 6-week European vacation. As for whether Demon Queen Lilith or Demon King Daemonicus-Smiler even appear in either mini-novel, well, let's just say not explicitly and leave it at that.
Or not — after all, as per here , they are noted in Hellion 's Character Companion. Yes also, in the Legendarian 's defence, it is a copy of the a stained glass window he purports to have done early in the Outer Earth's 14th Century. And, no, none of the rats are tee-tees. The koppen or calvary-like hillock is shaped like a tholos. As for the cave's entrance, well, at a stretch it might pass for a skull-shape or golgotha.
Myself, though, I don't stretch that far. The copy reproduced here dates to It's by Augustin von Moersperg. The actual window was destroyed in This information is from FT , of which more here. That said, given what Smiler's main attribute appears to be throughout the phantacea Mythos — namely that no one can remember him unless he's standing right in front of him or her and mindfully wants them to remember him — Anon has to be him.
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It's almost impossible to hit a webpage on either of the two main phantacea websites that doesn't reference Smiler. One taken from Hellion is here. A bunch of others link from here , here , here and here. As already noted, Albrecht Durer, age 4, and the hound Drang whose name I admittedly made up appear a few times during Contagion.
It's my contention that Durer, like Bosch and the notorious Spanish inquisitor, Torquemada , were recruited by Contagion Collectors led by Tomcat Tattletail and Herta Heartthrob and thereafter actually spent some time on the Hidden Headworld. I mean, where else would they have come up with such fantastical imagery firsthand, especially at the tail end of the Outer Earth's plague-ridden 15th Century?
I initially constructed this image with Harmony, the Unity of Balance, in mind. However, as eventually revealed in Contagion , it might just as easily apply to Herta Heartthrob. I first described it here but I've since learned that the nose on the statue I shot in NYC a Roman grave marker was knocked off deliberately. To do so apparently prevents the ever-so-lifelike figure coming to actual life. The practice was quite common in the early days of Christianity — it certainly beat decapitating statuary, which Christians were quite fond of doing as well in Mediaeval Europe.
Virtually ever since I began phantacea on the Web in gasp! It chronicles all sorts of serendipitous discoveries that make me wonder how much I've actually made up and how much of phantacea is real. Centuries before either Zeross, father or son, came along, they figure rather irreplaceably in both Hellion and Contagion.
Intriguingly, nay serendipitously, guess what Bosco, age 26, must have spotted in the aforementioned Garden of Earthy Delights besides the Juggler double-click for a cut-out? Yep, a ringot — and not just any ringot either, but one containing Metisophia, the Legendarian 's devic half-mother. How do I know this? Well, in "Janna Fangfingers" , the concluding third of Daze , guess who returns?
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As for why she's called Metowl by then, um, well again , it gets complicated. Aka Titanic Metis, she doesn't feature in Hellion because she's been ring-gotten. Her purloined cauldron does, however. And the Juggler's on the cover of Contagion at least in part because his belly shows Metis ring-gotten.
Only, I just realized that about a year after I prepared the cover. The mighty eye-mouth in the sky above Sedon's Head is depicted about to slurp up the Cosmic Express. The artwork is by Ian Bateson, circa The original appeared on the cover to phantacea Phase One 1, of which more is here and here. As per here , a slightly different version of the Sedonic Eye-Mouth appeared on the back cover of " The War of the Apocalyptics ".
The flip-side of this postcard is here. As already noted , aspects of Fangers could constitute a prequel to the 'Launch ' story cycle.
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Sample chapters from the rewrite of the web-serial are here. It's unlikely they'll make it as is to 's Gambit but they'll be close. Although for Vetala's Soldier the titular Goddess is, of course, Nergal Vetala, three other devic goddesses play a Trigregos Gambit in the novel. They are dot , dot and, um, well, sort of. The 'Devils in Disguise' collage belongs here in the sense that Gambit carries on from where an aspect of Fangers leaves off.
A few details re the shots that went into this collage are here. As for why the incomparable Harmony is wearing a shroud, well, um, let's call it symbolic for the moment. All shall be revealed before Mithramas — assuming there still is a Sedon's Head upon which Mithramas is celebrated. The gods and goddesses, the demons and monsters, of ancient mythologies have been trivialized, their worship proscribed and the entities themselves mostly confined to another realm. Wikipedia, for example, has plenty by both.
In order to save you a search, I've highlighted a few of them. For reasons made clear therein, it's called the Garden of Earthy Delights in Contagion. The mini-novel also makes clear that Bosch didn't make it up — at least he didn't within the phantacea Mythos. The version I used is from a poster replacing the actual painting in the Doge's palace of Venice. Apparently the original was being cleaned while I was there in As for Durer, the putto who once ate Sinistral Envy , Drang not yet a dachshund, thus not yet having wolfed down the murine crud containing Camorva Freeflight and Herta Heartthrob a technically daemonic, hence soulless, earthborn eidolon given flesh come from Melancholia.
Should perhaps add, as a bonus teaser, that Herta is a melancholic angel in the sense that she has wings and is lovely, except she seems plagued by sadness at her own lack of fulfillment. Above all else, she wants to wholly devour the Unity of Balance , whom even she perceives as Beauty Incarnate, instead of simply settling for gathered-up scum-cream left behind on Tholoi hearthstones that Harmony used to get to the Outer Earth in pursuit of Tomcat Tattletail — a character introduced as such in Hellion — long, and often, pre -book.
Both Death and the goatish Devil came from ' The Knight '. The ' Four Horsemen ' came from just that. The British Museum has piles of Durer's prints. It even puts out a small hardcover that can probably be ordered online as if just to prove it. I scanned in the ones I used for the covers on this page, as well as its background images, from art books I already had at home.
Just by the bye, Durer's Death upper left corner in graphic beside this paragraph looks a lot like old King Cold, Tantal Thanatos, did in the comic books.
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Which is doubly appropriate since Cold is one of the aforementioned Death Gods of Lathakra — the other being immediate sister Methandra , Hot Stuff, Mithras's Virgin in both Feel Theo and Hellion , though no longer in the comic books or just plain Heat after her attribute — and Thanatos is the name of the Ancient Greek God of Death.
Just as interesting to me anyhow , Durer's Devil might well be someone the recurring deviant, Pusan Wanderlust, would fall for in both Hellion and Contagion. That's because, as also per here , Pusan's a female faun or fauna and everyone knows what fauns are best at doing, a lot. Published in ; main webpage is here ; ordering lynx are here ;.
Tentative cover for Dem-Des ; will probably be changed before it's published; scheduled to be released in ;. Put it this way: The one after 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! 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. Its next task is the destruction of Alpha Centauri's Island. And its master scientists: 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? A couple of middle-aged, newly-become supranormals named Doc Defiance and Mr. 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, however, -- some neither of WORLD nor entirely of this world.
Most devils have not been, let alone seen, on the Outer Earth, not in number, for upwards of thirty-five hundred years. 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.
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! Phantacea Publications on Google-Plus. Jim McPherson's pre Travels: Jim McPherson's post Travels: The War of the Apocalyptics" The 'Launch ' Story Cycle.
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What was once, will be again Thirty-six years after its original release, Jim McPherson completes his Launch project to novelize all the Phantacea comic books with the release of "Helios on the Moon" pH-3 artwork by Richard Sandoval, ; rollover adjustments made by Jim McPherson, Double-click to enlarge images in this panel here. Phantacea Seven - The unpublished comic now novelized - At long last, the second entry in the Launch epic fantasy has arrived Check out the expanded Availability Listings for places you can order or buy Phantacea Publications in person Images in this row double-click to enlarge here.
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