Winter:  Winter 1997-98 was a bit of fun, taking place in a Queens cemetery with the westbound Brooklyn-Queens Expressway in the background.

In fact, on the Exit 38 sign, you can see our second insertion of the phrase "FREE KEVIN" into a cover.  (The first had come one year earlier in the Winter 1996-97 issue.)

Section 26 was an actual section of this cemetery, which is why we chose that particular location in the first place.

The names on the tombstones, however... those were embellished a bit.

We had Varney, Cook, and Thackeray, names of assorted prosecutors and agents who had made enemies of the hacker community.  (It's entirely possible that one of those names was actually on one of those tombstones which gave us the idea for adding the rest.)

Also in the picture was an actual NYNEX sign as NYNEX was on its way out, having been taken over recently by Bell Atlantic.

Also, on the Varney tombstone is a statue of G'Kar, a character from the science fiction television show Babylon 5.  It just seemed to fit.