The gas tank of such a truck is the dark container behind Kurt’s shoulders and neck in panel 4 and behind Kurt’s upper thought bubble in panel 7. And it contains diesel, which is less flammable than gasoline, you have to mix it with air and compress the mixture (the compression heats up the mixture) to ignite it. So, apparently no leakage from the tank, no (orange) light from behind it that would indicate a fire (there could be a small fire, but a fire as small as from a garden torch would take hours to heat up the tank until it would burst, unless the tank is of plastic – but then the diesel would just burn instead of exploding.
I’d rather think of a bomb. Doesn’t need to be a big one, just enough to violently burst open the tank, thereby mix the liquid diesel with air and ignite the mixture, all within a fraction of a second.
The cause of the explosion is completely unimportant. It’s that there was an explosion, and Kurt may have been seriously injured, and Charlotte has to deal with not knowing and trying to find out. That’s the story. But I love your attention to detail.
6 thoughts on “Panic Time! 01”
DMC_Run
Deliberate, or happenstance?
(_”DUN!_DUN!_DUUUNNN!”_)
Tune in next time!
David
We may never know 😮
FYI, I am starting a posting schedule and will be posting new pages every week. Thanks for you readership, DMC_Run! 🙂
Opus the Poet
In my experience cars just don’t go “boom” without a fire near the gas tank.
David
And if Kurt could have finished his sentence, he would have said, “Guys get back! There’s a…flame by the gas tank!
Thanks for you’re interest, Opus! 🙂
RockB
The gas tank of such a truck is the dark container behind Kurt’s shoulders and neck in panel 4 and behind Kurt’s upper thought bubble in panel 7. And it contains diesel, which is less flammable than gasoline, you have to mix it with air and compress the mixture (the compression heats up the mixture) to ignite it. So, apparently no leakage from the tank, no (orange) light from behind it that would indicate a fire (there could be a small fire, but a fire as small as from a garden torch would take hours to heat up the tank until it would burst, unless the tank is of plastic – but then the diesel would just burn instead of exploding.
I’d rather think of a bomb. Doesn’t need to be a big one, just enough to violently burst open the tank, thereby mix the liquid diesel with air and ignite the mixture, all within a fraction of a second.
David
The cause of the explosion is completely unimportant. It’s that there was an explosion, and Kurt may have been seriously injured, and Charlotte has to deal with not knowing and trying to find out. That’s the story. But I love your attention to detail.