ESSENTIALS HC (2025)

ESSENTIALS VOL. 2 continues the mind-bending journey of Harris Pax, a mathematician who predicted the end of the world but couldn’t prevent it. Now to save humanity, he must return to the underground bunker where madness began, but not without a fight. Alongside unlikely sidekicks—from walking corpses to toy robots—Harris weaves through fractured realities of creatures, angels, and monsters to restore the world he once knew. But will it be enough to defeat Snuggles once and for all?

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!