>>137803
Codices don't actually generally follow a "comic" like format, generally. You're cropping the folio/page to make it appear that way
That said, the concept of speech scrolls is pretty close to that of speech bubbles, sometimes the color of the scroll even correlates to the emotion of the speech like how speech bubbles can be jagged. The Codex Selden has one really fun example where there are knives on the end of the scroll to represent a verbal threat aas well, for example
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>Codex Black
Based, I will also shill this as a Mesoamerican history and archeology nerd. It's fantasy but is quite well researched and authentic, and the creative liberties it does take are still rooted in Mesoamerican culture or visuals
It even plays around with some of the same speech scroll concepts I mentioned earlier.
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The Mexica didn't actually demand captives as tribute that often, it was predominately economic goods like cacao, jade, gold, feathers, wood, copal, obsidian, etc; or military or labor service for construction. Actual captives as slaves or sacrifices as taxes/tribute come up only very rarely in the Codex Mendoza, Paso y Troncoso, etc, and even those instances of captives as taxes are typically demands of captured soldiers from other states, mostly Tlaxcala, Huextozinco and the other states in their alliance network
Most captives the Mexica got were enemy soldiers taken during battles (not that battles were only about taking captives, killing happened too), or were people offered as spoils by the surrendering city/town when they gave in, rather then annual taxes after that point