Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for May 13, 2023

The car that haunts you down.

Not a Plymouth, so she’s good.

Unfortunate choice for folks of a certain age!

Oh no!

Two days in a row with that look.

I named my EV Hal

I named a former husbands Trans Am Christine. One day I drove her and she kept cutting off.

I own a Mach-E and installed the FordPass app on my phone. In the app you can name your car. I named mine “Letter Of”.

AAARRRR!

Oh, NOW I get it: the Stephen King novel. I thought it was Arlo’s first wife. Whom he never mentions. Whom They Never Found…hee, hee, hee!

Great movie.

My wife left a note on my brand new Porsch that said “This is not working!”

I started to panic!

But I started the car and it is working fine.

The True Story Behind the Christine Car

https://paranorms.com/the-real-life-killer-car-that-inspired-christine/

I hope this is the end of the car jokes.

My Jeep Rubicon is Reuben James!!

She bought a 1957 Plymouth?

I usually won’t name a car but I had a 78 Chevy Malibu that I called POS.

There are those who do not see the connection.

It’s one way to keep Arlo from ever going near it.

That got a laugh!!

Love Arlo’s expression in panel 4. Obviously a King fan.

Ah yes, the movie Cristine…….

I’ve never understood naming cars. It doesn’t bother me and I’m not knocking it, I just never wanted to name one of mine.

Love the book.

the only named car I’ve ever had was a 1993 Plymouth Grand Voyager which was green in color. It was named by my kids, “The Green Bean.”

And, eventually Christine will begin to talk to Janis through the screen

I recently needed to drive a friends car with the push button start. The car dashboard had to tell me to also push the brake down. LOL

Good name girl. Good luck and she is all yours….

And when you get a pup, name him “Cujo”.

Our escape is Bluebelle and the F150 is ‘Big’ Blue. they are both Electric blue.

Stephen King would be proud.

OH no!!!

Umm – no.

My old Dodge Ram was called the “Beast”, the car is simply “Her” and our RV is called Lucky (Falkor since our two puppies that go with us on trips are names Atreyu and Bastian).

Loved that movie!

(referred to hk’s comment only)

For me “Misery” is his scariest novel/movie, I still jump at the thought of one particular scene. For most disturbing (meaning I couldn’t sleep after) I’d have to say “Jacob’s Ladder”.

All the rest of his books is still pretty scary, both “Christine” and “Cujo” definitely got to me. The shining was also scary, but it was the tension that kept me on the edge of my seat.

Mine’s called the “CranVan”. Guess why!

Sure… what could POSSIBLY go wrong??

Who’s going to tell her?

HAHA! Again… FUNNY!

What’s in a name? We are talking about ghost haunted machines. Christine was a non-corporeal entity from a human that died. Others like Herbie the Lovebug has one that was never alive or human. Hitler tried to harness one for his behemoth tank. It failed. Bartley Finchley had a most unusual problem. His aura upset the ghost in the machines. Even after his death the lawnmower kept veering off to strike his gravestone. It took a Ghost Buster to research it and figure it out what had happened.

TZ “A Thing About Machines” by Rod Serling

The last panel shows Arlo remembering the novel and movie of the same name as the car. Definitely a real "yikes!’ moment.

LOL…

The New Adventures of the Brand New Christine.

“Took me a minute! I DO NOT do Stephen King!!

It’s okay. Christine protected the owner.

We started with “the mustang” (mine) and “the capri” (his). We got to the point in the 1980s where it became “the car” and “the van”. Since then both vehicles have changed – and at one point we owned two vans, the car has changed a couple of times due to hating what we had. Now we have “the car”, “the van” and “the RV” (which is also a van).