(W) Luke Arnold, Chris "Doc" Wyatt (A) Glenn Fabry, Jason Howard, Vince Locke, Brendan McCarthy, Andrea Mutti, M. K. Perker, Dani (CA) Bill Sienkiewicz. 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. This debut graphic novel from The Lab ships in a gold-foil stamped cloth slipcase!