This world will get more dangerous. In the first season, there was a lot of time spent at that camp when they were fine. Now we've taken that away from them. ... We're really going to just expand the world a little bit. We're hitting the road, they're moving, and it's going to be a lot of cool stuff. - The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman on season two.

With the second season of this AMC hit set to premiere on October 16, a newly-released poster appears to be back up Kirkman's synopsis. Below, Rick is alone, running, seemingly toward Hershel's farm, the site that will play a key role on the drama this fall.

But the clouds above are dark. Will he make it? (Probably.) Bookmark our section of The Walking Dead spoilers for an in-depth look ahead and click on the poster now for a larger version: