The Walking Dead Season 5 Midseason Premiere Photos Released

To go along with their cover story on the return of The Walking Dead this week, Entertainment Weekly have obtained a batch of photos from the upcoming ninth and tenth episodes of the series' fifth season, which will air on February 8 and February 15, respectively, on AMC.

You can check them out at EW or in the gallery below.

Everything you see here is a variation on a familiar face or theme, but just wait: they're bringing the new soon.

"I think by the end of the season we're carrying more characters than we've ever had in the whole other five years," series star Andrew Lincoln told the magazine -- presumably an indicator that certain stories comic book fans have been expecting for quite a while are going to begin to play out soon.

The Walking Dead returns Sunday night at 9 p.m. ET/PT on AMC.