Linkara: This one has been sitting on my shelf for quite a while. I really should have gotten to it sooner, and it probably requires an explanation, because until I saw "RiffTrax" make fun of a short about this, I didn't know this was a thing: using gasoline for cleaning purposes. Okay, here's the thing: dry cleaning came about when, in the mid-19th century, Jean Baptiste Jolly noticed that one of his tablecloths got cleaner after kerosene was spilled on it, and in the early days of the 20th century, gasoline and other petroleum-based solvents were used in the process. By the 1930s, however, petroleum-based solvents were phased out because, well, petroleum-based solvents tend to have this little problem of being extremely flammable. The dry cleaning industry replaced it with chlorinated solvents like perchloroethylene, which is nonflammable. These days, there are a number of different dry cleaning methods, but I can guarantee you that nobody, NOBODY uses gasoline anymore for that, and if they do, they're friggin' morons! And it's probably a good bet that nobody was doing this in 1993, when today's highly flammable comic came out. Today's PSA is about the dangers of gasoline vapor and how STUPID you are if you're seriously using gasoline for anything other than a fuel source! And of course, we needed a supervillain based around this. Well, okay, I mean, I guess it could be some thief trying to cleverly use gasoline vapor to blow up a house or a vault or...
[laughs]
Linkara: No! It's some kind of supernatural being! Of course!