Queen City Comics (the other one)

It's a dream of mine to have more comic book-related posts than food-related posts. Some day!


Check out this glory. Comics upon comics. I can say that Queen City Comics-- both branches, the one in Fairfield and this one in Pleasant Ridge-- have the best selection of comic books that I've seen in Cincinnati.


It's a bit overwhelming, to tell you the truth. I walked out empty-handed, which is rare for someone as geeky and impetuous as I am. But there was too much to take in. And that was only comic books-- while many of the stores we've visited have some additional board games or Warhammer sets, this was 99% comics. They know what they know.

(They have a website now! I swear they didn't before.) Queen City Comics' website: http://www.queencitycomics.com/

Gas Light Café

You know where I rarely visit? Pleasant Ridge.


Dan and I drove out just to go somewhere different for lunch. (Okay, there are comic books across the street. More on this soon.)


Dan had heard that the burgers were Zip's quality... not sure that I agree. It was a good burger, but not great. I ordered the "Gas Light Burger," which is essentially a burger with all the very normal fixins... I found myself wishing I'd ordered something with a little more pizazz. (Not that anything on the menu really jumped out at me, to be honest. It's a bar.)


There was a cute trivia book on the table, which is a big win for me. I can imagine visiting this place with a group of friends on any given weeknight, but for lunch I wasn't impressed. Our server didn't even notice when we walked in, although we were almost the only people in the joint.