Survivors vs zombie soldiers in first pics from The Walking Dead season 11

Believe it or not, The Walking Dead is coming to an end with the upcoming 11th season, which will run for a supersized 24 episodes. The first eight will premiere August 22 on AMC, to be followed by two more batches of eight later on. All told, the whole thing will be wrapped up by fall of 2022.

That’s according to Entertainment Weekly, which got its hands on the first images from the show’s final season. While the bonus six episodes of season 10 kept things pretty intimate on account of COVID-19 conditions, season 11 will give us scale as our survivors deal with the Commonwealth, the most advanced civilization they’ve encountered so far.

Take a look at the three new images below:

Another helicopter shows up on The Walking Dead

First up we’ve got Rosita (Christian Serratos), Lydia (Cassady McClincy) Carol (Melissa McBride), and Maggie (Lauren Cohan) fighting zombie soldiers near a helicopter in what looks like a hanger space. The next shows a better angle on the foursome after they’ve taken care of business, and how.

Who are these soldiers? Are they from the Commonwealth or the Civic Republic Military, another civilization the show introduced a few seasons ago? We all remember when Rick was carried away in a CRM helicopter? Helicopters have been a red flag ever since.

Finally, we have Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) beating the stuff out of a walker with a crowbar, he having burned his infamous baseball bat Lucille in the finale of season 10, “Here’s Negan.”

It’s hard to believe The Walking Dead is really ending after over a decade on the air. But don’t worry, the franchise isn’t going anywhere…for better or worse.

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