It’s only looking at the title now do I notice I could have planned things better to have the two numbers match. Oh well, at least I still have the unending pile to dig through for consolation. But the series I’m looking at this week isn’t one that’s unfamiliar to the article as I ended up covering the first issue an indeterminate amount of time ago, please don’t look at the date of it. But after that amount of time, the series has finally concluded, so we can see the full scope of Richard Blake’s Hexagon Bridge. 

The last time we had looked at this series, Jacob and Elena were lost in a realm known as The Bridge while their daughter, Adley, would dream about where they were. Picking up from there twelve years later, Adley has developed those dreams into the conscious skill to view The Bridge remotely and is training with an android, Staden, to guide him through the shifting landscapes of the extra-dimensional space. As Adley guides Staden through The Bridge to find her parents, he encounters other bots left from previous cartographer expeditions that had disappeared, many from before the first expeditions left Earth. Following the breadcrumbs that Adley can find, Staden reaches deeper into The Bridge as it begins to shift further.

Hexagon Bridge is very much a journey of a comic as we do reach an eventual destination, but that isn’t actually what the story is about. While there is a resolution to this story, there are still whole spools of threads not yet fully explored. But then that isn’t much of an issue for this series since our main focus here is Adley and Staden—their arc, their relationship, and their mission. What we see as a result of that is a comic that gives us so many ideas and elements of its world, but lets us build on those ourselves instead. The Bridge is nigh-incalculable in its scope and composition, so a five-issue series isn’t the place to fully map it out. But it’s just enough time to give us Adley and Staden’s story with enough mysteries attached to it to keep the door open for a potential sequel for them both. And sometimes that’s the best thing you can do with a place like The Bridge—as infinite as it is, the main focus should always be on the people looking to navigate it.

Blake’s vision on Hexagon Bridge is precise and calculated. As much of the story is pushing Adley to achieving a single task—something that is actively being manipulated outside of her control—seeing the ways in which the story comes together around her and Staden feels like looking at a vast navigational chart. We can see all of the potential paths they can take, but we know that there’s only one place that they can end up after their journey together. 

Get excited. Get lost. 

Drew Barth (Episode 331, 485, 510, 651, & 674) resides in Winter Park, FL. He received his MFA from the University of Central Florida.