Courtney:

I was traveling again this weekend. That should be the last time I do that for a while! Luckily, my good friend had recently made me this topical guest comic I could use.

Hey, a lot of you were asking about Jim the gold skull. I know he’s adorable, but all the magic of the skulls is bound up with the Sunken Island and if they get taken too far away from it, it’ll fade. :( But if you’re worried about how lonely he’ll be otherwise, or how horrible it was for him to be stuck in a treasure chest for ages… the skulls only have a flicker of consciousness which activates when they have someone around to interact with. They are essentially golems imbibed with enough intelligence/consciousness to complete their task, i.e. to judge incoming pirate hopefuls.

PS: I named Jim after the main character in Treasure Island, for obvious reasons.