'Game of Thrones' Season 6 poster teases a bloody Jon Snow, April premiere

Warning: Months-old spoilers below.

Winter is coming... in April.

HBO has released new art for Game of Thrones Season 6 that is good news for Jon Snow fans — and better news for anyone who was worried that new episodes would be kicking off significantly later this year.

The art, released Monday, highlights a bloody Snow, who died at the end of Season 5, and promises an April premiere date.

The latter is particularly great news. While the show has typically debuted in late March/early April, the network's scheduling of new shows hinted that Thrones' start would be delayed; some feared it would even be pushed back until May. Now, at the very most, you'll have to wait a week or two longer than usual.

Meanwhile, the months that have followed the death of Snow have been filled with heaps of speculation about the fate of the character, who is either dead, alive or somewhere in between.

You're free to believe what you wish, but let's just all keep in mind that it's not common practice for a show to spotlight a dead-and-never-seen-again character in key art for its new season. That's just not something that happens.

Meanwhile, you must be feeling like you have it pretty good now, don't you, Walking Dead fans?

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