Author Cesar Torres

Cesar Torres (they/them) is a novelist, photographer, and designer — and the creator of the Aztecverse, a mythology-driven universe that fuses Aztec cosmology, queer identity, and fetish culture into literary and visual art.

They are best known as the author of the How to Kill a Superhero quartet, which they originally published under the pen name Pablo Greene beginning in 2013. The series follows Roland through a world of superhero bondage, occult mythology, and M2M erotica rooted in Aztec legend. The four books have developed a dedicated cult following over more than a decade.

Their work has continued to evolve across multiple creative eras — the LED Queens bodybuilding spandex and photography project, the upcoming literary novel Our Lord of the Flowers (dropping summer 2026), and most recently The Nagual, a new phase of visual and literary work exploring Mexican wrestling culture, lucha libre mythology, and the body as cultural argument.

Torres is also the author of the long-running Muscle & Spandex newsletter, which has published weekly for six years to thousands of readers at the intersection of spandex fetish culture, queer body art, and mythology.

Their literary influences include Umberto Eco, Roberto Bolaño, Jhumpa Lahiri, H.P. Lovecraft, Caitlin R. Kiernan, and Carlos Fuentes, among others.

The visual archive behind fifteen years of Torres’ work lives in The Vault, which is stewarded by The Nagual.