The Walking Dead returns Oct. 23 with the Season 7 premiere on AMC.
There’s one silver lining to the frustrating hiatus Walking Dead fans have endured after the Season 6 finale cliffhanger, when new villain Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) killed a TBD main character with a baseball bat.
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Kirkman admitted that fan backlash to the cliffhanger has reached the writers’ room.
Series creator Robert Kirkman says the show will (probably) never leave fans dangling like that again.