Ronda Pattison

Aftershock Comics has emerged as one of the most interesting new publishers in a long time, making a bold impact on the industry with titles like Insexts and Captain Kid. Headed up by editorial veteran Mike Marts, Aftershock has assembled an all-star line-up of talent, and today announced that Chew's John Layman and comics legend Sam Kieth will join the publisher for Eleanor and the Egret, a crime caper about an art thief and her pet bird.

If, like us, you've spent the past weekend binging on Netflix's second season of Daredevil and reveling in all the superhero exploits, ninja action and all-around punishment, you probably still haven't had your fill. While there are great Daredevil runs from the likes of Frank Miller and Mark Waid that you could read to get more of a hornhead fix, what are you supposed to do if you've read all of them too? We've got five of the best independent comics to try next if you can't get enough of the Man Without Fear.

If you thought Waynes World 2 was the uncontested champion of revelatory dream sequences, prepare to half your brain melted by the power of heroes in a half shell. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Classics, Vol. 3 arrives in stores on December 19, containing 128 pages of tales from issues #27-29 of the original TMNT series including Michael Dooney's dreamy "Dreams of Stone," plus "Sons

Utrom action is the name of the game in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #14. General Krang has finally shown his true, brainy-dude-piloting-a-humanoid-robot colors and is set to drop some serious extra-dimensional science on Baxter Stockman, much to the eventual chagrin of the TMNT...