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"The Walking Dead" is going to show places that are still left untouched when it returns for the second half of the sixth season. That's what is hinted by a newly released key art which features the line, "A Larger World."

"This image gives a look at tiny pieces of a larger world our group is about to discover," executive producer and showrunner Scott M. Gimple explains. "In the new world, they'll find hope, possibility, tragedy and the terrifying cost of change."

To EW, the comic book writer Robert Kirkman reveals that the midseason premiere will answer the cliffhangers. "We pick up right in that moment. Alexandria is overrun. Rick and the kids are all covered in guts trying to get through the crowd. Everyone is where we last saw them, and things get worse from there," he teases.

However, that doesn't mean the survivors have to find new shelter. "It comes back to those plans of rebuilding Alexandria," Kirkman shares. "Assuming some people survive, and it's a good bet that some do because they've already talked in the midseason finale that they're not planning on leaving Alexandria. It's a bump in the road, but there's something special there, and they can turn this into an anchor that they can build upon."

He continues, "They actually have a chance at surviving long term and building a safe place, not going from safety to safety to safety the way they have for the life of the show. This isn't the prison, and 'Oh, we gotta move on from here and find another place.' This is something different. And from there, there will be other things that expand their world in new and terrifying ways."

"The Walking Dead" returns Sunday, February 14 on AMC.