Autumn:  This was our Monty Python style cover which captured a whole lot of imagery.

The giant foot coming down and the U.S. Capitol dome swinging open are pure Terry Gilliam nods.

We added an ankle bracelet to the foot, along with a Jack in the Box logo to match the jack-in-the-box handle on the side of the dome.

We also moved Big Ben, the Taj Mahal, and Mount Fuji into the background and captured a bit of Abbey Road at the bottom.  (On the back cover of that famous Beatles album, you see a woman in a blue dress passing by the street sign.  Here we have a masked woman in blue passing a similarly placed sign that says KHRESHCHATYK, the main street of Kiev.)

There are wind turbines in the background as the battle for renewable energy sources continued to be a global focal point.

We also added a rainbow coming from or going to the Capitol and had a giant "VOTE HERE" banner pointing directly at the building as the midterm elections loomed.

Inside the Capitol is Mudge, famed hacker from the L0pht and former head of information security of Twitter who had just testified in front of Congress.

Being a whistleblower, he's holding a giant whistle as 24 black Twitter birds fly away.  This was an allusion to Black Twitter, as well as the line "four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie" from the famous nursery rhyme Sing a Song of Sixpence.

A gull door Model X Tesla is in flames on the front lawn (a reference to Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter as well as some problems with self-driving cars) as a herd of elephants with Remembrance Day poppies approaches.

The just-departed Queen of England is riding atop the lead elephant and away from a Buckingham Palace statue.

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