Aztek: The Ultimate Man was the brainchild of writers
Mark Millar and
Grant Morrison and artist
N. Steven Harris. The ongoing series was designed to debut a new hero of the
DC universe. The series followed the anti-hero
Aztek; a hero whose big picture mission meant he took unusual solutions to solving the small problems.
Aztek: The Ultimate Man featured an unusual city, unusual villains, and the supporting cast of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital.
Throughout its run,
Aztek: The Ultimate Man had counted Millar and Morrison as its writers, and Harris and
Keith Champagne as its artists. Famous DC cover artist
Steve Lightle lent his pen to the majority of covers of the series.
While
Aztek: The Ultimate Man was a critical success (it was rated one of the top 10 books of 1996 by
Wizard Magazine), it was not a commercial one, and
Aztek: The Ultimate Man was cancelled after ten issues. With its cancellation imminent, Aztek creator Morrison brought Aztek into one of the other comics he penned at the time:
JLA. The final issue of
Aztek has the titular hero joining the
Justice League.
Over the years, we would never go back to get a glimpse of
Vanity City, and Aztek would eventually die at the end of Grant Morrison’s run on
JLA, in
issue #41.
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