CORTEZ
and the Fall of the Aztecs
by Gary Reed and Mitch Waxman

    Soon after the New World was "discovered", an ambitious man set forth to make his fame and fortune. He sailed his ships to a strange land to embark on his quest and when he arrived, he saw a vast and brutal empire laid out before him.  It was an empire with destruction and death as its honor. It was an empire that stretched its tentacles of fear for 100’s of miles. It was an empire built upon the foundation of bones laced with the temptation of gold.  It was the Aztec Empire and the "Old World" had never seen such a bloodthirsty race.

    But he was determined to conquer it, by any means necessary and to insure his men would not think of returning to Spain during the campaign, he did the unthinkable....He burned his ships.... It was now either conquer…or die.

    And Cortez with his 400 men set out to vanquish an empire that numbered over a million.

Called by the Los Angeles Reader, the finest example of graphic story telling they’ve seen, Cortez is a fascinating look at an empire just waiting to be devoured. Contrasting Cortez with the Aztec leader, Montezuma, this series set a new standard for historical comics. Cortez is a tremendous historical character that has attracted attention in books and studies yet has never been successfully captured on film.

It is the saga of one man thirsting to conquer an empire against a ruler who tried to appease both his subjects and his gods.