THE DAY WILL COME WHEN YOU WON'T BE
Now batting: Negan.
After what seems like a six-month rain delay, the crushing swing delivered in April by The Walking Dead's mysterious new villain (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and Lucille, his barbed-wire-wrapped bat, will finally connect when Season 7 opens Sunday on AMC (9 ET/PT).
Potential targets of Negan's brutal blow include fan favorites Rick (Andrew Lincoln), Glenn (Steven Yeun), Maggie (Lauren Cohan) and Carl (Chandler Riggs). (Glenn was the victim in the comic-book series that spawned the TV show.)
As is often the case on Dead, cable's biggest hit that's already renewed for an eighth season, humans are at least as big a threat as the post-apocalyptic, flesh-eating zombie walkers. In light of the Negan threat, Lincoln amends his advice to Dead's survivors: "It's 'Don't get bit. Don't get hit.' "