Hi.

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  1. Puppet master theme.
  2. More tattoos of chemical and Voodoo symbols.
  3. Mannequins representing Inklings? Humans? Zombies? EVERYBODY?
  4. The Colony wall at the lower center.
  5. X-rays of TOWTM's arms.
  6. TOWTM is still wearing the suit.
  7. *No visible damage or disfigurement on TOWTM's hands. (Unless the light shining on the left hand is actually light shining through a hole)
  8. Possibly seven mannequins, the same as the remaining Inklings.
After having a very broad scope on the size of the zombocalypse first in season #2 (how far it spread south and how different zombies behaved) and in season #3 (the US-national and worldwide scope of it), this new season #4 artwork reconfigurates the focus: let's get back to where everything started - so let's focus on anything in/ around Los Angeles. But since most places of LA were already devastated or left alone (the Tower, the Arena; Dunbar, the Mall) The Colony will be the base of operations for the survivors and the target for Ink, the puppet-master.
The next thing I see is that the whole story around the survivors was and is about their struggle with Ink's army - the Arena, the second half of the War, Ink's first intrusion of the Tower, the "Hen"-recovery in the Hopsital ... It was always about the conflicts between humans striving and fighting for survival, while Ink's zombies aimed ... at survival or something else as well.
And over the many chapters and episodes it was established that Ink is the key-figure in this story - the key figure on the side of the zombies. We have an abstract understanding about some of the purposes of the Arena and the Hospital; especially regarding the Little Ones we theorize based on the safe assumption that the Little Ones are kind of a breed produced or at least supervised by Ink; and we also know that them zeehs follow Ink's orders - no matter what type of zeeh we speak of. So, that's what the puppeteer-theme seems to sum up.

But there is a wicked idea that has struck me as well: What, if the behavior and reactions of the remaining human survivors is actually something which falls under the control of Ink as well?

Liam