Essentials Vol. 1 Bill Sienkiewicz Premiere Editio Format: Hardback

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!

Luke Arnold is a novelist, actor, and Emmy-nominated writer. He has played iconic roles such as Long John Silver in the Emmy-winning Black Sails, and has won awards for his role as Michael Hutchence in the INXS mini-series Never Tear Us Apart, and Martin Scarsden in Scrublands. His first novel, The Last Smile in Sunder City, was released in 2020, which led to the Fetch Phillips series, with a fourth title coming soon. He makes his graphic novel debut with ESSENTIALS.

Chris “Doc” Wyatt produced the cult hit comedy film Napoleon Dynamite, the multi-festival award-winning drama Coyote, and six other indie feature films. He shared an Emmy nomination for the animated project Marvel’s Rocket and Groot. He has worked on series including Ultimate Spider-Man, Legends of Vox Machina, Marvel’s Avengers Assembled, Star Wars: Resistance, Batman Unlimited, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Transformers: Botbots, and Lego Ninjago: Dragons Rising.