Ok that he needed to show the impact of the explosions and bring everyone back to the main story and bla, bla, bla, but he went to far with it...
In an anime this ch. would take about 30 secs -.-
He could have made like 2 pgs of explosion them one huge panel with everyone like "OMG! It made boom!" in a epic way and it would be much more cool.
Still, i get the feeling that the story will advance much more with what happened