The Tatuaje Face was the third manifestation of the cigar that was Tatuaje’s third Monster Series release; in 2010 the original cigar was released, and then in 2012 a cigar set called Little Monsters was released that took the five original Monster Series releases to a smaller ring gauge and gave us Baby Face. Two years after that, Pete Johnson merged the two ideas for a new series called Tatuaje Pudgy Monsters, using the ring gauge of the original Monster Series release and the length of the Little Monsters version. As has been documented fairly extensively, the Tatuaje Face trio draws their inspiration from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre movies, specifically the villain, Leatherface. As a child, Jed Sawyer wore a leather mask to hide his facial deformities and tumors, turning that into a mask made from human skin when he became an adult and picked up on the cannibal ways of his family, who used sledgehammers and chainsaws to kill visitors to the rural Texas area they called home and turn them into their next meal. Johnson took that premise to create a cigar with a band made from tobacco; a somewhat jagged piece Ecuadorian Connecticut over the Mexican San ...
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