WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Daredevil #29, by Chip Zdarsky, Marco Checchetto, Marcio Menyz and VC's Clayton Cowles, on sale now.
While Wilson Fisk spent time trying to turn himself legitimate after being elected Mayor of New York City, the imposing Kingpin of Crime has fallen back into his usual bad habits and embraced his dark side once again. In the wake of weathering the crossover event King in Black and restoring some semblance of order to Manhattan following Knull's attempted invasion with an army of symbiotes, Fisk has set his sights on the one aspect of his life that he has demonstrated control over in the past: Making Daredevil's life a living hell. As Matt Murdock faces troubles of his own while serving a prison sentence, Fisk unveils his ultimate secret weapon to continue his vendetta: Bullseye.
Ever since Kingpin shifted his adversarial focus from Spider-Man to Daredevil, Bullseye has often played a direct role in the war for Hell's Kitchen. After being hired to assassinate the Kingpin, Bullseye failed but received a job offer from Fisk instead to become his top enforcer and hitman. Since then, Bullseye has maintained a longstanding love-hate dynamic with Kingpin, wildly alternating between pulling off deadly, daring deeds in a desperate effort to regain Fisk's favor or trying to kill him when he feels spurned or rejected by the powerful crime lord. And as Fisk descends back into villainy, Kingpin reveals he secretly has Bullseye in his custody and under his mercy.
Recently, Bullseye took up arms against the Kingpin and Daredevil by siding with a group of unscrupulous financiers looking to raze Hell's Kitchen so they could buy the real estate at a significantly cheaper price. Despite Bullseye teaming up with a whole team of Manhattan-based supervillains, Kingpin and Daredevil were able to defend Hell's Kitchen and drive the enemies out. Among the defeated was Bullseye, with the psychotic assassin remanded to a secret subbasement in Ravencroft, heavily sedated and under close observation. As Ravencroft personnel monitor and run tests on the imprisoned Bullseye, Kingpin reveals his plans for Bullseye's recovery back to lethal efficiency.
Kingpin reveals that Ravencroft is carrying out experiments under his orders on Bullseye, seeking to find a way to control the killer without compromising his deadly potential. While serving as a member of the Thunderbolts, Bullseye was kept in line by having a fleet of nanobots injected into his body. Whenever Bullseye operated in defiance of orders, he was violently shocked back into submission by his handlers, resulting in severe physical and neurological damage. Bullseye would later have the nanobots removed but was kept on a short leash by overseers, including the Kingpin and Norman Osborn.
Daredevil's old feud with Kingpin and Bullseye appears poised to resume again while he's serving out his prison sentence. With any sense of a truce long since dismissed, it's open season once again between the three rivals and Kingpin has both of the other two men right where he wants them.
Isolated and locked up, Matt Murdock has no idea what his old nemesis is up to as Kingpin transforms Bullseye into a completely loyal slave to his machinations. And given Kingpin and Daredevil's history, whatever Kingpin has planned for the controlled Bullseye is sure to get bloody for the Man Without Fear.