December 1st, 2009
Scars
I’ve made Flickr set documenting the ways in which I have injured myself. It’s not for the squeamish.
If you’re in Portland, OR this week come on by either or both of these events! I’ll be there :)
The above is my contribution to OMG PWN!ES, a gallery show of modified My Little Ponies. If interested in purchasing my pony, please contact show and gallery curator Kaebel Hashitani at sequentialart (a) gmail.com
OMG PWN!ES
Thursday, December 3, 6-10pm
Sequential Art Gallery
328 NW Broadway #113
Portland, OR 97209
The Legend of Webcomics
Saturday, December 5
3-7pm
Dunning-Kruger Solutions Ltd
1515 SE 46th Ave
Portland, OR
RSVP on Facebook
December 1st, 2009 at 1:46 am
Never thought I would find another person as decorated as I am. Blank canvases are boring, continue to wear your scars with pride! (that last panel brought back memories, and made my rib cage ache a bit)
December 1st, 2009 at 2:38 am
Timmy’s dead? That makes me a little sad… maybe we should hold a funeral for him.
December 1st, 2009 at 2:53 am
She’s bad, bad, badass!
December 1st, 2009 at 4:48 am
basically i read the whole comic yesterday and i love it :)
and i’ve more scars than you ;)
December 1st, 2009 at 7:08 am
You are totally badass!
December 1st, 2009 at 7:13 am
I think everyone’s scars tell a story. I am proud of my scars, because they show I can survive some tough stuff and still move on.
December 1st, 2009 at 8:37 am
And we are all very thankful that you’re a survivor. :D Coming to a theater near you: Erika Moen Vs. Nature.
December 1st, 2009 at 10:34 am
I’ve joked with my friends before that you are my twin from an alternate universe (based mostly on the neck-tweaking with a helmet strip and the painful anal pushing back thing strip), and this just cements it. I’ve got a Harry Potter eyebrow scar too, though it was from running into a table. I also had abnormal cell growth/pre-cancerous lesions removed, but from my back. I severed an artery in my ring finger, no nerves though..
You are totally badass <3
December 1st, 2009 at 11:07 am
Yeah the minute you get a breast tumor your badass points go up by 50! The biopsy and surgeries give you a fire flower and a magic mushroom… I’ve actually been going through the same thing recently and the moment I found out I had a lump in my breast I thought of you strangely enough…
December 1st, 2009 at 11:08 am
Oh my god, I remember reading on the interwebs when you did that pinky thing, has it been eight years? I feel so old now.
And indeed, you are badass. You seem to be unlucky but also immortal, which is a pretty good combo!
December 1st, 2009 at 11:23 am
I love scars. They tell stories!
December 1st, 2009 at 11:28 am
i have a headscar (dueling? no, water skiing), finger scars with nerve damage, chest scar from broken ribs/punctured lungs. i had no idea i might qualify as a badass! thanks!!
December 1st, 2009 at 11:29 am
The bike riding really sells the punchline. Great stuff!
December 1st, 2009 at 12:15 pm
Might be a Spike scar.
December 1st, 2009 at 12:21 pm
I love scars, they add such character!
I have one directly under my right eye from the first time I crawled and thought it would be awesome to bellyflop on a sleeping, hostile doggy.
Then there’s the dozens of little ones all over my legs from when I was a kid and showed my love through beating this shit out of the boys on the playground.
Oh, and a chunk of graphite embedded in my wrist from when my sister stabbed me with a pencil.
December 1st, 2009 at 1:48 pm
Scars are badges of honor for those who have fought with life and survived. So, yeah, that IS pretty badass. :D
December 1st, 2009 at 2:13 pm
I have more scars than you do, neener neener. :^P
December 1st, 2009 at 4:01 pm
Aww, your dog bite face scar is from a much more badass dog than my dog bite face scare. I’ve got a big ol’ scratch mark down the right side of my face from a freakin’ wiener dog.
I love reading about scars, oddly enough. They all tell interesting stories.
December 1st, 2009 at 5:28 pm
All I have are chicken pox scars and a few cat scratch marks.
However, my husband is a genetic fuck up. His DNA is really good at making sure he has lots of cysts. He has 2 inch scar on his side from where one very large one was removed. It apparently still hurts. He has small bald spots all over his head, (he gets tons of cysts on his head).
December 1st, 2009 at 5:53 pm
YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY BADASS. CANCER IS YOUR BITCH. XD
December 1st, 2009 at 8:19 pm
Oog, thinking about this stuff makes my head hurt and my balance go all sideways! But I’ve acquired a few permanent dents and marks in my years. All in all, they’re pretty awesome and give you instant stories (ie, toddler versus pitbull)
December 1st, 2009 at 8:43 pm
Hah, I have a chihuahua lip bite scar :s Also, I fainted on my bike and woke up in an ambulance this summer…still don’t know what happened. To klutzes!
December 1st, 2009 at 10:05 pm
For the longest time I had zero scars (through a combination of luck and good healing), and I felt left out when other people talked about theirs. Then I blundered into the corner of my desk while half-asleep, and now I have a scar shaped like a musical note on my inner thigh!
December 2nd, 2009 at 12:06 am
December 1st was my 21st birthday. One of the most exciting things about it landing on a Tuesday is getting another one of your comics.
The boyfriend even got me the Erika Moen Super Pack, excitement.
December 2nd, 2009 at 7:27 am
What’s up with the “See my ex-girl naked” ad?
December 2nd, 2009 at 12:49 pm
Erin, I don’t see it? And I can’t find it in my ad history?
December 2nd, 2009 at 12:49 pm
Robyn, Happy birthday!
December 2nd, 2009 at 12:50 pm
Onimoz, Er, not that badass seeing as all my tumors have been benign so far /:)
December 2nd, 2009 at 4:11 pm
I must say that the picture of you hand quite gnarly.
December 2nd, 2009 at 6:03 pm
Yeah, I don’t see it anymore either. I’ll try to save an image or something if I see it again.
December 2nd, 2009 at 6:53 pm
Nice scar collection!
Myself, most of mine were minor enough to have faded away over time (specifically, the time i sliced the top off of one of my finger joints, and the time I skinned my knee open on the playground at grade school [might still have a few pebbles stuck in my knee to this day]), and where my friends cat went ballistic on my left arm. My only currently visible ones are at my hip and my left foot, where they transplanted bone to reconstruct my ankle.
On reflection, yours are much cooler. :-/
December 4th, 2009 at 12:30 am
Wear a helmet!!!
<3
December 4th, 2009 at 1:03 pm
An-G, I do in real life! :)
I am militant about bicycle safety. You should see the Safety-First kit I wear.
It is ridiculous. But it keeps me visible!
December 4th, 2009 at 1:03 pm
Thanks Erika!
December 4th, 2009 at 3:14 pm
I don’t know if this happens to other people but occasionally my mouse clicking finger twitches accidentally, which can be annoying at times, having to wait for programs I didn’t want to start to start up on my far too slow computer, but yesterday it clicked on a link that ended up here, and now I’ve gone through the archives and love it, so I have tentatively forgiven my itchy clicky finger as for a change it has done good. Ms Moen you seem like a fairly awesome personage, keep up the good work. PS; watch out for that open manhole!
December 4th, 2009 at 8:55 pm
Scars are just tattoos with better stories. I have all three! (Scars, tattoos, and stories…)
I think my gnarliest scar is on my knee, from tripping on concrete and having to pick rocks out of my kneecap with tweezers. I also have a really fabulous dog bite scar on my left forearm… from a Pekipoo. A freaking Pekinese-Poodle mix. Then again, I’m a dog groomer so it sort of comes with the territory I guess.
:D
December 5th, 2009 at 7:13 am
Go pituitary tumor club.
December 5th, 2009 at 10:10 pm
I have only 2 scars, one from chicken pox, one from my appendectomy. I don’t hurt myself very frequently, and when I do it’s more likely I’ll dislocate a joint, rather than cause visible harm.
December 7th, 2009 at 2:20 am
Badass girl, you are a fighter! Keep going!
December 7th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
TV Tropes only lists two kinds of scars. To those I would add “Stupid Scars Accidental Scars”. “Stupid Scars” are, obviously, scars acquired during “Hey-everyone-watch-this!”-type moments. “Accidental Scars” are acquired in circumstances where they are unavoidable or not the fault of the bearer. (Surgery, car accidents, etc.)
December 11th, 2009 at 10:18 pm
I have a skin disorder and my body produces it’s own scars. Bam.
Oh, but I did hit a mailbox with my face this one time.
January 1st, 2010 at 11:59 am
Man, I wish I had scars. My skin heals abnormally well, so even though I get wounds that are bad enough to qualify for scarring, it never goes. Last night, my cat kicked my face (Long story…) and I have two gnarly scratches near my cheekbone. They won’t stay though, unless I get cat scratch fever, which will not be pleasant. The closest thing I have to a scar is a mark on my wrist (The outer side of my arm, not the inner) where I was punctured by…uh…a pin I think. Can’t quite remember what, but I do remember it was bad though. My skin was puffed up for a couple of weeks, and the left this weird looking veiny star thing. It is almost faded though.
January 1st, 2010 at 9:39 pm
How do you make EVERY SINGLE COMIC ADORABLE. It’s so unfair. :)
January 29th, 2010 at 8:23 pm
Why is the pitbull scar on the opposite side that you’re showing in the picture link?
January 30th, 2010 at 11:55 am
Brian, because I got confused with the mirror-imaging. It is the same reason why sometimes I draw my tattoos on the wrong side or draw myself as being left-handed.
March 8th, 2010 at 2:28 am
Hey, I have a pinky scar too! It got clipped with pruning shears when I was little, still hurts like hell anytime anything hits it the wrong way.
April 22nd, 2010 at 9:32 pm
I have only 2 scars, one from chicken pox, one from my appendectomy. I don’t hurt myself very frequently, and when I do it’s more likely I’ll dislocate a joint, rather than cause visible harm.
May 31st, 2010 at 5:36 am
well, at least you haven’t spontaneously combusted yet. your large hand scar reminded me of the time I clopped a chunk of my middle finger off with a hedge clipper.
May 31st, 2010 at 5:50 am
I got scars aplenty. most of then are from cats or cooking and are hard to see, but all my major ones are sports related. I had one on my stomach from impaling my self on a tree stump mountain biking. impale might me a bit of an over statement as it did not puncture into my stomach, but I had to peal my self off and I could see all these veins and crap for my dermal layer. I say if you are pealed off something then you might as wells say impaled.
August 30th, 2010 at 8:10 pm
What doesn’t kill you makes you stranger.