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Mega-City One as we know it was developed by a number of writers and artists. Pat Mills helped to define Mega-City history and wider geography in The Cursed Earth, and John Wagner (often in collaboration with Alan Grant) shaped the city and introduced most of its key features and landmarks in a series of stories from about prog 110 onwards. In particular, they shifted the city from a 1950’s-model where citizens lived a life of leisure served by robots, to a mass-unemployment scenario that parodied Thatcher’s Britain of the early 1980’s.
Nevertheless, Carlos Ezquerra planted the seed from which all of this grew.

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The Perseids are Back! Wish upon a star…dozens of times a night!

Heading out to cottage country or camping? Be sure to look for the Perseids, one of the most impressive annual meteor showers!

Each year, from late July to mid-August, hundreds of meteors rain down on our skies as the Earth passes through the tail of Comet Swift-Tuttle. An increasing number of shooting stars should be visible every night, until the light show culminates on the nights of August 11-13. During the peak, typically in the darkest hours after midnight, up to 50 to 80 meteors per hour can streak across the sky. 

Don’t forget to make a wish!

Photo: Perseids below! Astronaut Ron Garan snapped this shot of a Perseid meteor (the white streak) below the International Space Station on August 13, 2011.

Photo Credit: Ron Garnan/NASA

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