Hell to Pay (100-105). Here's a great idea for Daredevil #100: hit Matt with a hallucinatory fear drug, and then have him spend the issue fighting old foes and meeting old lovers and friends, as he trips his way across Hell's Kitchen. It lets you touch back on the continuity of the entire comic's run, and so honor the anniversary. Except, it turns out that this idea has never been interesting and isn't interesting here either. Instead, you get a dull and pointless issue. Worse, this particular usage makes you question why Matt's poisoning worked different from Melvin's poisoning. (Different drugs, I guess, but it's never clarified.) 
 Fortunately, the rest of the volume is great. Brubaker reinvents Mr. Fear as a Killgrave-level manipulator and creates a compelling drama, particularly for the heart-breaking ways that it impacts Matt's life. I said of Brubaker's initial arc that I didn't want to see another repeat of the killing of Matt's friends, but what Brubaker does here is so much better (and worse!). It's also pretty great that Brubaker interweaves his plot with the Dark Reign plotline, but through the use of the Hood he makes it totally organic: a real part of the overall storyline. 
 In the end, Brubaker offers up another excellent volume. Though he's still never matched the excellence of his prison arc, as a whole his second year's story is more consistently great than the first year's story was [8/10]. 
 Devil May Care (Annual 1). Using Matt's prison stay as a way to give him a link to another villain is great, and Black Tarantula comes off as a very interesting character. This storyline definitely feels somewhat removed from Brubaker's other work, but it's nonetheless an intriguing character study, and a reflection of what even Matt won't do. [7+/10].