Season five of cable’s most popular series featured an emotional goodbye, with Abraham telling group leader Rick Grimes, “The new world’s gonna need Rick Grimes.”
Now AMC has taken that to heart for the back half of The Walking Dead’s fifth season, incorporating it into the newly released key art. The imagery shows the group on the move again, after events of the current season eliminated several safe havens.
AMC described the midseason debut as a formative struggle for most of the group:
“Rick Grimes’ band of survivors find themselves on the road, surviving day-to-day and trying to hold on to their shredded humanity and dwindling hope. Stripped of security and without a direction for the future, some of the group near their breaking point, some find themselves hardened and cold and some just try to grasp onto what little they have left. Though they are still breathing, the line between Rick’s group and the dead is starting to blur. Could there be anything at this point that brings them back to life?”
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The second part of season five kicks off Feb. 8 on AMC.
[Image courtesy of AMC]
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