Wizard of Id by Parker and Hart for July 08, 2021

Based on past strips, not something he really needs.

No fair — he’s using a P.E.D.! (Performance Enhancing Device)

And keeps him laughing.

Don’t play Author Brown’s “Fire” if you don’t want an accident with that enhancer.

NOS = Nitrous Oxide Systems.

After burners is why jet jockey’s wear ‘G’ suits.

On a one on one contest, Smaug could smolder Henry with or without the enhancements!

But where is Henry’s friend Puff? I figure that Puff being a magic dragon would get along well with the Wiz.

Henry, you’d tell us if there was a big reactive thrust, wouldn’t you?

What attack? You only uses him for barbeques.

Aaaannnnddd… he’s out of the dragon olympics.

He’s all set for the dragonster races.

as long as it doesn’t burn out his bearings and rings…….

What the world doesn’t need…a dragon with an advanced flame attack!

Just what the world needs. A dragon with more horse power. …sheesh!

Nitrous oxide would not maintain a pilot light; and the dragon would have his own.

A real flamer, eh?

That’s a lot of energy drink… along with the Red Bull Henry had.

Years ago, I stopped in a small town in Idaho to gas up my car. At the entrance of a trailer park was a metal dragon with a connection that would fit a propane tank. Love to have seen the dragon “in action.”

NOS Warning: For Racing use only. Do not Breathe. Can cause Death. Non-Flammable Gas. (Known to go Boom!) (What is the Wiz thinking?)

In an engine nitrous oxide helps in two ways: one, it cools the air, allowing it to be denser and, thus, contain more oxygen with the confines of the engine; and two, at around 565 degrees Fahrenheit it breaks down into nitrogen and oxygen, thus adding more oxygen.

In both cases it seems like the benefit of nitrous oxide comes from increasing the amount of oxygen available for combustion in a confined space (the engine). Henry’s breathing fire is a case of combustion in the open air, where oxygen is more freely available, so would the nitrous oxide add that much? I suppose you could argue it would be akin to using a bellows in an open air forge.

LOL – except nitrous doesn’t burn, it’s just an oxidizer. Needs a fuel tank along side it to actually do anything. Funny, but technically non-functional.

Might want to use liquid oxygen and squirt that into his fire. Would work like an after burner on a fighter jet…..

Part of the Flames and the Furious franchise?

A JATO bottle would give more burn.

I’ll wager it does.