Cortez and the Fall of the Aztecs

In this two-issue miniseries from Caliber Press, writer Brent Truax and artist Mitch Waxman reimagine the Spanish conquest of Mexico as a darkly mythic clash of civilizations. Rather than a straightforward historical account, the comic filters the 1519–1521 conflict through a visceral, almost supernatural lens, with Cortés’s expedition framed as an encounter between European ambition and the gods of the Aztec world. Truax and Waxman’s collaboration brings a raw, expressionistic energy to the story, making it a distinctive entry in the early-’90s wave of revisionist historical comics. It matters as a compact, artist-driven exploration of how comics can grapple with the moral and psychological weight of empire and cultural destruction.