Season four spoilers: The first of The Governor, A masked Daryl, and the first walker of the season

AMC's "The Walking Dead" will premiere sometime in October and I know that you all are anxious to see what the new show runner Scott M. Gimple has in store for us. In the past few days I have run across a few photos and would love to share them and my thoughts with you all.

THE GOVERNOR IS BACK

In this recent picture you can plainly see The Governor ( David Morrissey)  and his distinguishing feature; the eye patch. As all comic addicts know, The Governor is memorable for his long black hair and his horseshoe ("biker") moustache. As we can see above it appears as if season four will start gravitating closer towards the comics (at least in comparison to previous seasons.) This photo also confirms Kirkmans statement: "We are definitely going in some new directions and this will continue to be a different take on the material form the comics but there will possibly be some scenes that are a little bit closer to the comic than we’ve done in the past. Season four probably has the most number of scenes that are adapted directly from the comic series or very close to what we did."

THE MASKED MAN

Why is Daryl covering the bottom half of his face? Your guess is as good as mine. Many sites have joked around about him changing Judith's diaper or robbing a zombie convenience store. These are fun to joke around about but when I seriously think about it, I can only come up with three possible scenarios for why he's masked. One, they decided to clear out the walkers in the prison yard, and they are burning the bodies. Two, Daryl was captured by harmful (or cautious) survivors, and was masked until he brang them to his home, the prison. The final scenario would be that he's just wearing it to look cool or "bad ass". I doubt that's the case, although it is a possibility. If I had to guess between the three choices, I'd bet on scenario one. It makes the most sense being that there is prison gates in the background. I'm not really big on the idea that he was captured and I think that Daryl is already enough of a bad ass that they don't need to overdo it with adding a bandana.

THE FIRST SPINE-TINGLING WALKER

As for season four spoilers Norman Reedus (Daryl) teased, “They’ve introduced a way to make zombies scary again, and they’re terrifying. The new threat is just unreal. I can’t of course tell you what that is, but it’s brilliant writing.” 

Recently, on AMC's official Facebook they released this bone chilling black and white photo of a greatly decomposed walker. Gale Anne Hurd said that this season the walkers will become a much more of an imminent threat compared to last season. I would imagine that there would be more close calls than last season, along with deaths.

SEASON FOUR BANNER 

The new Comic-Con banner and season 4 promo poster was uncovered for AMC's "The Walking Dead," and many fanatics speculated to what it signified as fresh spoilers dawned. There's not much we can get out of this in the terms of spoilers, except the fact that Michonne (and possibly others) will be riding on horses as they annihilate decomposing walkers. Given that they've found horses may contemplate that they have also found other livestock and figured out a way to sustain them. It also may mean that gas has been hard to come by and the group, either by initiating a search or by luck, found the horse and possibly other livestock. I would imagine the animals wouldn't be hard too hard to take care of being that over fifty percent of Woodbury is at the prison with nothing to do. With Kirkman confirming there will be another time skip I wouldn't be surprised if they did have a small garden started by the season opener.

THE FIRST OF RICK

This is the very first photo AMC released for the upcoming season in October. The photo depicts Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and a walker that appeared to have been at a funeral before the apocalypse occurred. Based on Ricks facial expression he appears to have spotted something, either a familiar face, a settlement, survivor, herd of walkers, etc. It could literally be anything, or nothing, we'll just have to suffer for another 90 days to find out!