Autumn

The Autumn cover was an homage to the classic painting "American Gothic," created in 1930 by Grant Wood.

The faces of the husband and wife are both obscured: he is wearing a pixelated Guy Fawkes mask (made especially popular at the time by the actions of Anonymous and the just-born Occupy Wall Street movement) while she is hiding behind the final issue of Rupert Murdoch's News of the World (recently shuttered due to a "hacking" scandal).

The husband is holding a "hack" saw instead of the famous pitchfork from the original painting.

Both people are wearing Anonymous logo t-shirts where the face has been replaced by that of a younger Rupert Murdoch while the lines behind him are from the News Corp logo.

There are also cats in the window of the house, a throwback to the Autumn 2007 cover.  The barn from the painting has been replaced by the windowless 33 Thomas Street AT&T building, featured in the October shot of the 2012 Hacker Calendar.

And we can't seem to resist having the occasional vulture circling in some of our covers over the years.