This was our supply chain cover.
Ironically, this issue's release date was adversely affected by supply chain issues with our printer (i.e., a lack of paper).
Disaster and disease have struck at the heart of the global supply chain, raising costs and adding delays to almost everything.
The background of the cover is a rusty old chain.
In the center is a circle divided into thirds.
Each of the thirds shows a mode of transportation in calamity:
- An 18-wheel truck is on fire (with the Philadelphia Cream Cheese logo on it - cream cheese being in short supply at that time).
- A large container ship is capsizing, its shipping containers bearing the Club-Mate logo on them and about to fall into the ocean (2600 had previously brought the German Club-Mate drink to the United States).
- A crashed airline is seen with the logo of the fictional Oceanic Airlines (from the TV show Lost) on it. The plane in that show was actually a Boeing 777, not a Boeing 737-800 as this one is labeled. (The 737-800 was actually the precursor to the Boeing 737-MAX, which was grounded in recent years following mysterious crashes.) The PK-LKS registration will lead you to an actual Boeing 737-800 flown by Lion Air (Flight 904), which crashed in Indonesia on April 13, 2013 (everyone survived).
The center circle is surrounded with paper cutouts of a figure with their arms bound with "chains" and the paper is printed with Log4j-related source code from an editor, because the computer security/IT world is going to be cleaning up after Log4j for a long time to come.