Solver number nine cover (Patreon)

Number nine... number nice... number nine. This might not be the final cover but it was fun enough to share. What on earth could this issue be about?

And below, the cover for the project I will spending the last forty years of my life working on. I've decided to "do a Ditko". Now, I've not read any Ayn Rand yet but I figure her books are a bit like David Eddings' Belgariad series but maybe with space rockets.