In a post-apocalyptic world torn apart by the madness of a warping reality, shotgun-wielding scientist Harris Pax and his two extra-dimensional, non-corporeal alien sidekicks (manifesting as a walking corpse and a toy robot) are humanity's only hope for survival. In ESSENTIALS, mathematician Harris Pax predicted the end of the world but failed to prevent it. Now he's living alone in a bunker and his niece's favorite toys have started talking to him. The good news? He's not the world's sole survivor. The bad news? The other survivors are trapped in alternate realities -- imprisoned in imagined worlds full of zombies, robots, mythical creatures, and chaos. And now Harris Pax and an unlikely ally must travel the country on a quest to restore reality, save humanity, and defeat his new interdimensional nemesis: Snuggles. Written by Luke Arnold (star of Black Sails ; writer, The Fetch Phillips novels) and Chris "Doc" Wyatt (producer, Napoleon Dynamite ; writer, Ninjago ). This debut graphic novel from THE LAB ships in a gold-foil stamped cloth slipcase!.