In this review of Supernatural #6, the origins of Sam and Dean’s car come to light, and it turns out that one can be released from Hell on a technicality.
SUPERNATURAL #6
Writer: Greg Pak
Artist: Eder Messias
Main Cover: Clayton Crain
Variant Covers: John Amor, David Cousens,
Page Count: 32 pages
Release Date: March 25, 2026
This review contains spoilers
Supernatural #6 starts with a flashback to a decade prior, in Pittsburgh. A young girl’s just finished fixing up an old vehicle. But her (and her dad’s) moment of pride is brought to a crashing halt when a car rams into her and her newly-fixed up vehicle.
In the present, Sam and Dean are still limping their way to safety after the prior issue’s ghostly courthouse shenanigans. Their vehicle shows up again, and Dean still doesn’t trust it. Sam still focuses on the fact that it tried to buy them some time the night before and has been helping them at every turn so far. It drives off, seeming hurt by Dean’s remarks.
As the guys try to figure out how to deal with their injuries, a vehicle drives up. And behind the wheel? Windler, fresh out of what should have been an eternity in Hell. But since she has to be dead for that to actually count, she’s back amongst the living, and offering them a ride. Plus, they want to know what she did with their dad’s journal, and so go with her.
She’s able to get them patched up, and reveals that her father wanted the journal for some reason. She’d handed it off to someone else that was taking it to him, and lets the guys borrow a vehicle to chase the guy down.
During the ensuing chase, their car reappears (and boy, does it seem angry). But despite the anger, it still goes out of its way to avoid harming innocent people. The guys talk about how they’d acquired the car with a mind of its own. Windler points out that it apparently chose them.
A brief scuffle with another of Windler’s employees comes up, stopped by the Winchesters’ car showing up. It plays a radio broadcast detailing a young girl named Jeannie who’d been killed in a drunk driving incident, by someone that’d gotten hammered at the Windler Holiday Party. And how the company had avoided all responsibility…
I can safely say, I hadn’t anticipated Supernatural #6 being the car’s backstory. But at the same time, it makes perfect sense and ties the sentient car element nicely into the Windler Brewery plotline. The Winchesters have definitely dealt with possessed objects before.
The way this car had been acting around the guys also shows that in life, Jeannie seemed to be a considerate girl: moving out of a handicapped spot at the library, being as helpful as possible to the Winchesters, making sure not to hit pedestrians… That scene that led up to her death? Also shows that she was smart. Her dad wasn’t shown doing most of it while she watched…no, she was stated to have been working on that car for three years.
Steff (or as she mentions preferring, “Effie”), claims that she doesn’t know anything about the incident that led to young Jeannie’s death. That’s honestly pretty plausable, though. The incident happened ten years before, she may not have been in a position of power at the company just yet. Plus, just trying to ignore an incident like that until it goes away feels pretty par for the course for a major company.
On the other hand, who’s to say she wasn’t the driver? She’s noticeably nervous when denying any knowledge of the incident. And if she was drinking for three hours prior, there’s a good chance she wouldn’t have remembered it clearly and that’d give the company even more reason to dodge accountability.
Either way…can’t really blame Jeannie for trying to chase Effie down, because even if it wasn’t her, it’s still her family name. So that could also give Effie another part in this story: finding some way to atone for what her father’s company did. Because she may be a bit on the shady side, but she has started to show that maybe—just maybe—she’s not actually the worst.
A couple things about the library are brought up again in Supernatural #6, particularly the ancient book with an illustration that looks just like Sam, and the comet. Looking forward to learning more on that front.
The dialogue feels very true to the show, still, and the artwork is working for the story. Once more, some definite fun to be had with facial expressions.
Final Thoughts
We’ve got some sentient car answers (or rather, ghost car answers), and a bit of a cliffhanger for next time with Supernatural #6. Here’s looking forward to #7!
