This Athena concerns a 45-year-old man who presented with a 1-year history of recurrent tense fluid-filled lesions over his forearms, hands, feet and face associated with scarring and pigmentary changes. He had a history of regular alcohol intake (> 3 units daily). Lesion biopsy revealed a thick granular deposition of IgG along the basement membrane with thick homogeneous positivity of papillary dermal vessels for various immunoreactants (IgG, IgA, C3, IgM).