While it may be difficult to believe now, when the inaugural cigar in Tatuaje’s Monster series The Frank was released in late October 2008, they were really not all that hard to get ahold of, even if you were looking for multiple boxes. I can remember calling up both Empire Cigars and the now-defunct Gloucester Street Cigar Co. days after the release with options to purchase multiple cigars. Now things have changed, the dress boxes go quick, sell for far more than their list prices and there are smaller monsters. (Editor’s Note: Rather than rewriting history seven times, we’ve included the same basic history of the Monster Series across all eight reviews.) Last year, Pete Johnson of Tatuaje began talking about a project known as “fat little monsters,” a take on the 2012 Little Monster samplers, which was a take on the über popular Monster Series. Tatuaje’s origins with monsters dates back to October 2008 when the company released The Frank as part of its Monster Series. The plan was simple, cigars based off of monster characters from films with names, boxes and even some times blends paying homage to each monster’s respective personality. The series has become an annual occurrence, arguably ...
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