New York Comic-Con: The Walking Dead Promises More Scares This Season

The Walking Dead Walking Dead-heads, prepare to have you minds blown - and to see some brains blown away! AMC's undead hit rises again tonight at 9/8c with "zombie stuff like you've never seen before," said executive producerGale Anne Hurd. Addressing the capacity audience at NY's Comic-Con Saturday afternoon, Hurd, consulting producerGreg Nicoteroand series creatorRobert Kirkmanteased Season 2 with promises of "a bigger story" than last year's staggeringly cool six-episode first season. "All the crazy stuff you saw last season, we're doing bigger and better [this year]," said Kirkman. And based on the exclusive footage screened for the crowd of a nerve-shredding sequence involving over 150 zombies and our band of survivors on an abandoned Atlanta highway, the scares are definitely super-sized. "We're working really hard to make sure we deliver," continued Kirkman, the man behind the graphic novels the series is based on. For his part, Hurd says Kirkman has been a daily fixture in the writer's room, making sure the plots that have been laid out in his comics are tweaked to keep viewers surprised (especially the books' iconic Hershel Greene farm arc). Meanwhile, she and Nicotero have been on location in steamy Georgia overseeing the adventures of Rick Grimes and his band of sweaty, zombie-fighting compadres. The panel, moderated by Nerdist podcast host and comic Chris Hardwick, also featured appearances by several cast members, includingLaurie Holden, who hinted that her previously tortured Andrea "will get feisty;" a buzz-cutJon Berthnal, whose Shane will clearly live longer than his graphic-novel counterpart; andSteven Yeun, who received quite the positive reaction from the fans when he mentioned new cast member and co-panelistLauren Cohan's role as Maggie might mean romance for his Glenn. "You might meet some people along the way," Yuen said with a smile of the group's often-deadly search for other survivors. "And to find something to love? That's a great reason to live." Love among the human ruins? You'd have to beDeadinside not to dig that! Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!