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The Walking Dead Season 8: Rick's "Last Stand" Begins in February

With about a month to go before The Walking Dead's Season 8 mid-season premiere, AMC has released two pieces of official key art for the show's return as well as a new overall synopsis for the second-half of the season.

Promoting the tagline "The Last Stand," the main art highlights the trio of Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus) and Michonne (Danai Gurira); who appear ready to end the war or die trying. The secondary art, released through The Walking Dead's Twitter account, shows Rick and Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) heading towards what might be a final stand-off – Lucille vs. .357 Magnum, with the future of a new society hanging in the balance.

You can check out the artwork for yourself, located above and immediately below.

Here's a synopsis of the upcoming season's second-half, along with the teaser trailer released by AMC after the mid-season finale:

All out war has had a devastating impact on every person involved. The communities themselves are fractured. Alexandria has been destroyed, the Hilltop finds themselves pinned, and the Kingdom is shattered — half of them dead, the other half controlled by the Saviors.

At the very center — Rick, having been distracted by the conflict, has just returned home to learn that Carl, who heroically shepherded the Alexandrians to safety during Negan's attack, has been bitten by a walker. Once his sole motivation in this otherwise stark existence, Rick is forced to deal with this reality. Carl has always been a beacon of hope, a symbol for the remaining thread of humanity — lessons that the survivors around him would be wise to take with them as this war surges onward.

But Rick isn't the only person who's living in peril. Aaron and Enid are in a dire situation at Oceanside — unclear if they're in friendly territory, or if they've just made new enemies. Father Gabriel will do his part in attempting to smuggle Dr. Carson safely back to the Hilltop and a pregnant Maggie is wrestling with the many moral gray areas that come with leadership during war. In a standoff with the Saviors, she must decide how to proceed with the dozens of POW lives she's currently in control of, as well as new complications that come with being a leader.

In addition to the war, Negan continues to deal with struggles within his ranks as workers, traitors, and others' thirst for power cause conflict at the Sanctuary. Having gifted the Saviors a major victory, Eugene's loyalty is repeatedly tested as new obstacles present themselves.

As all-out-war consumes us, the line between good and evil continues to blur. People fighting for what they believe in. Everybody working together for something bigger — to feel safe and have a world worth living in.

The Walking Dead returns to AMC with its Season 8 mid-season premiere on Sunday, February 25th at 9 p.m. ET.

Source: Deadline Hollywood

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