Editors must be running out of ways to portray Hillary Rodham Clinton on the covers of their magazines. Last week, it was Time Magazine with Clinton as a disembodied, blue pants suit clad giant towering over the Democratic field. 
 
 This week it’s the New York Times Magazine with a deeply weird depiction of one of the most famous women on the planet (pun intended). 
 
 Hillary Rodham Clinton, as you’ve never seen her, on the cover of this Sunday’s NYT Magazine pic.twitter.com/QIsqibZaq5 — David Joachim, NYT (@davidjoachim) January 23, 2014 
 
 What are these covers trying to tell us? That Hillary is big and powerful? That it’s her world and everyone else is just living in it? Kind of like 2008? 
 
 Buzzfeed has some other ideas about the “Planet Hillary” cover. 
 
 UPDATE: The editors at the Times have weighed in with an explanation about what they were going for. ||||| This week’s New York Times Magazine cover focuses on the “gravitational pull” of Hillary Clinton’s possible 2016 campaign. And indeed, it portrays that concept in a pretty literal way by envisioning the former Secretary of State … as a planet. Just her disembodied head fashioned into a fleshy planet. 
 
 No, this is not a Photoshop job from a bored Redditor. This is real: 
 
 Hillary Rodham Clinton, as you've never seen her, on the cover of this Sunday's NYT Magazine pic.twitter.com/QIsqibZaq5 — David Joachim, NYT (@davidjoachim) January 23, 2014 
 
 If this is an indicator of the bizarre shenanigans in store for the 2016 election cycle, then we’re pretty excited. Very, very confused, but also excited. ||||| A New York Times editor tweeted a preview of this Sunday’s upcoming magazine cover this morning, promising a look at “Hillary Rodham Clinton, as you’ve never seen her.” In itself, this is not especially news; the magazine usually runs its cover stories online a few days before the print issue hits the stands. In this case the story in question, which has not run yet, is likely to to be, well, eclipsed by the cover art. 
 
 A photo of the former Secretary of State, Senator and First Lady was Photoshopped onto an orb suspended in space, along with the copy “Planet Hillary.” The image itself is unflattering and creepy at best, and appears to have been designed by insane or vindictive children. And it has given Twitter a lot of feelings. 
 
 For the record, a source inside The Times told Digiday that “the space theme might make more sense in the context of the story.” We can’t wait. 
 
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 Here are some of this morning’s best reactions so far: 
 
 Fortunately for Team Hill, the day’s news cycle rapidly churned onto other, more pressing things. Like the release of a certain superstar’s mugshot: 
 
 Which, in true Internet fashion, produced this perfect mashup. And the circle of life online is complete: ||||| David Joachim, editor of the Washington bureau of the New York Times, just tweeted the cover of this week’s New York Times Magazine, and it’s no moon. It’s an inexplicable, not particularly creative, visual metaphor that would be incredibly visually unflattering no matter whose face you did it to. Also, part of a weird trend. 
 
 But I know what my nerd brain is saying about it. It’s saying “MOISTURIZE ME,” and wondering if Planet Hillary could hang out with Mogo so he’d be less lonely, defeat Unicron, or negotiate peace with Galactus. 
 
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 I know, right? And there’s more where that came from. 
 
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 The Times’ David Joachim tweeted out the cover Thursday morning, pledging it showed Hillary as we’ve never seen her before (that is true): 
 
 Free pitch, from me to god’s ears: what about a Clinton cover in which she’s depicted as a human adult person? Just throwing that out there. 
 
 NB: 2016 election still almost three years away. 
 
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 Have a tip we should know? tips@mediaite.com ||||| The Hillary Clinton New York Times Magazine cover is already fast on its way to becoming the most meme-d magazine cover since the last time we meme-d a magazine cover. Here are all the permutations you could possibly need. 
 
 For reference, the Times Magazine image: 
 
 Hillary Rodham Clinton, as you've never seen her, on the cover of this Sunday's NYT Magazine pic.twitter.com/QIsqibZaq5 — David Joachim, NYT (@davidjoachim) January 23, 2014 
 
 Hillary Moon 
 
 Hillary Bieber 
 
 *this has the benefit of mashing up with today's other major meme. Two memes! No waiting! 
 
 Gravity Clinton 
 
 Hillary the Teletubby Sun 
 
 Dunking Hillary 
 
 *the virtue of this one is the First Lady symmetry of Michelle Obama dunking a Hillary-faced basketball. 
 
 UPDATE: Also this. Obviously this. Forever this.
– New York Times staffer David Joachim tweeted a photo of the newspaper's Sunday magazine cover, declaring that it shows Hillary Clinton "as you've never seen her before." That's an understatement. It depicts Hillary as a planet (or a "faceplanetball" in the words of Mediaite) and the type explains that the story is about her "gravitational pull" on the 2016 election. No word from Clinton herself yet, but there's plenty of other reaction: Nia-Malika Henderson, Washington Post: "Editors must be running out of ways to portray Hillary Rodham Clinton on the covers of their magazines. ... Deeply weird." Brian Braiker, Digiday: It's "unflattering and creepy at best," but a source at the paper tells him that “the space theme might make more sense in the context of the story.” (The story's not out yet.) Samantha Grossman, Time: "If this is an indicator of the bizarre shenanigans in store for the 2016 election cycle, then we’re pretty excited. Very, very confused, but also excited." Susana Polo, the Mary Sue: "It’s an inexplicable, not particularly creative, visual metaphor that would be incredibly visually unflattering no matter whose face you did it to." Rob Beschizza, Boing Boing: "I feel like this is a momentous moment, so I ordered myself a Planet Hillary Mini Button from Cafepress." Instant photo meme: The Wire and BuzzFeed round up some of the weirder ones emerging. Each site has a different image with a Teletubbies theme, oddly. How it came to be: Arem Duplessis at the Times explains that the story, headlined "Planet Hillary," is about her "influence on the various people within her political universe." The original sketch idea brought to mind the classic "man on the moon" image, and further tweaks expanded on the theme.