In conversation between Meza-León and Iturriaga at the Latino Comics Expo 2025 they discuss their creative journeys, the making of Batman Azteca, and the future of Latinx storytelling in animation.

The film's "mash-up" approach risks reducing the Aztec Empire to a stylized backdrop—a commodity rather than a culture.

The Return of Camazotz is stunning, unsettling, and—like the Mayan bat god of death that haunts the protagonists—impossible to put down.