The Walking Dead kicked off its Comic-Con panel today with exciting news for all fans:

Season 3 will premiere on Sunday, October 14 at 9 p.m.

The AMC smash also debuted a new trailer that featured our favorite group of survivors arriving at the prison, along with the Governor taking on Michonne and Rick refusing to give up control of the new surroundings.

The warning attached to this official teaser: Fear the Living.

We'll update this post shortly with plenty more quotes, scoop and Walking Dead spoilers from the Q&A session, but for now: go ahead and set those DVRs!

UPDATE: And here's the trailer:

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