Mr. Lacer’s birthday present from me was rather late this year, but in my defence they’ve only just released this, and I knew this was worth waiting for. Both me and Mr. Lacer are massive fans of Neil Gaiman (in fact, hold the front pages, Mr. Lacer recently shocked me by actually going out and buying a book, all by himself, bless, he only normally buys Terry Pratchett and even then he hopes someone else will buy it for him, he normally just reads a select few of my cast me downs, namely anything by Neil Gaiman and Dexter, but he got tired of waiting for me to buy Gaiman’s Fragile Things, so he brought it, he would have brought Stardust to, but it didn’t have the right cover . . .), anyway, me and Mr. Lacer are big fans of Neil Gaiman, we both read his blog, so off course we knew that he’d been asked to write the final Batman, we didn’t go as far as getting the comic when it came out but I was rather pleased to find out that it was coming out later as a book.
So, Batman: Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?
Out of the other stories, I really liked A Black and White World, an interesting take on comics, were the Batman and the Joker are behind the scenes of the comic in the green room, practising their lines. The other two stories didn’t really feature Batman at all, concentrating instead on the villains and how they effected other people.
Now, I just have to wait for Mr. Lacer to finish Fragile Things, it could be a while . . .
I was impressed enough with Jamie’s American Road Trip last night, to go out and buy the accompanying book 
today, although who am I kidding, I always buy Jamie’s books, even though some of them aren’t brilliant. This one though looks pretty good and it fills me with quite a lot of excitement about upcoming episodes on the TV series, particularly when he goes to New York, the recipes there look very delicious. This book is a book back to where Jamie is just all about the food and only about the food, i.e. there’s no crusading going on, no trying to get people into kitchens, which although I think is work on encouraging people to cook is great, selfishly I always prefer it, as someone who can cook already when Jamie is just about the recipes (although I’ll readily admit, who was the person who taught me to cook? Yup it was Jamie back in his Naked Chef days, before that I was a complete and utter ready meal girl), oh and I like the travel stuff to. And in a way, even though I say Jamie isn’t crusading here, he is in a way, in that, well at least, he’s certainly opened my eyes to aspects of American cuisine I didn’t know existed, after just one episode yesterday I’m looking at just Mexican food in a different light.
