The Montreal/Quebec Local Fans Banter Thread

[Protoman]

Originally Posted by Buhawi

Checked out cosmix today and spoke to the owner. That place has been around for 33 years. Apparently, on Decarie there use to be 4 comic book places. That must have been glorious.

Also Lou's place, Sci Fi, has been there since at least I first went there back in the mid 90's.

May these places stay live long.

Back in the late 90s, Decarie between Cote Vertu and De La Savane Metro had many comic based shops.

- Comic Plus owned by Dave Grekkin (fun fact also Lou of Sci Fi Anime's first job)
- Comic and Carte Sportif (Use to be across from Cosmix)
- Cosmix (Still around today and the best place for Free Comic Book Day)
- Cartamagica (Moved to St. Hubert, big TCG and gaming store)

Also gone but was around was:

- Unique Arcade (Arcade downstairs, closed in 2004)
- Microplay (Tons of vintage games, next to Decarie Hot Dogs)
- Asiatic Cadeau (Anime/manga Chinatown-Like store with all kinds of oddball stuff from Gundam model kits to Ultraman toys to Dragonball cards)

Sigh.......... such a shame

[anemis]

Originally Posted by Protoman

Back in the late 90s, Decarie between Cote Vertu and De La Savane Metro had many comic based shops.

- Comic Plus owned by Dave Grekkin (fun fact also Lou of Sci Fi Anime's first job)
- Comic and Carte Sportif (Use to be across from Cosmix)
- Cosmix (Still around today and the best place for Free Comic Book Day)
- Cartamagica (Moved to St. Hubert, big TCG and gaming store)

Also gone but was around was:

- Unique Arcade (Arcade downstairs, closed in 2004)
- Microplay (Tons of vintage games, next to Decarie Hot Dogs)
- Asiatic Cadeau (Anime/manga Chinatown-Like store with all kinds of oddball stuff from Gundam model kits to Ultraman toys to Dragonball cards)

Sigh.......... such a shame

nostalgia is a bitch aint it ?

[Protoman]

Originally Posted by anemis

nostalgia is a bitch aint it ?

It was quite the hub for stuff for a guy like me

Went to Vanier College from 2000-2003 so while most of that stuff was gone by the time I got there, I got to enjoy a lot of it during my grade school and high school years

[Buhawi]

There's a few microplays still around here and Laval.

Oz jeux video, the one I grew up with sadly closed. Another is Daniel amusement on Decarie. SF legends were born there.

[Protoman]

Originally Posted by Buhawi

There's a few microplays still around here and Laval.

Oz jeux video, the one I grew up with sadly closed. Another is Daniel amusement on Decarie. SF legends were born there.

Where I started my arcade rats days, the video store in Plaza Cote Des Neige (Video Illusion) closed for good recently.

Man we are getting old...

[MahtimusPrime09]

Hey all, just jumped onto this discussion. Just wanted to know, where would be the best place to get comic books, new and old, at a cheap, or at least decent price? Or for fun, which is the nicest? For the range lets say from around Decarie to the West Island. Thanks in advance.

[FreedomGundam]

There was also Palais Des Cartes, which, in the early '90s, was directly opposite of Cosmix. They eventually downsized (I think?) and moved onto Sainte-Croix, just south of Boulevard Côte-Vertu.

[bishop]

Originally Posted by MahtimusPrime09

Hey all, just jumped onto this discussion. Just wanted to know, where would be the best place to get comic books, new and old, at a cheap, or at least decent price? Or for fun, which is the nicest? For the range lets say from around Decarie to the West Island. Thanks in advance.

It's a bit farther than Decarie, but I like Millenium comics on the plateau.
http://www.milleniumcomics.com/english/index.php

And also ToyCon is coming up... in june:
http://site.toysonfire.com/

Lots of comics, if I remember.

[anemis]

Originally Posted by FreedomGundam

There was also Palais Des Cartes, which, in the early '90s, was directly opposite of Cosmix. They eventually downsized (I think?) and moved onto Sainte-Croix, just south of Boulevard Côte-Vertu.

also it,s a bit further but there,s capitaine quebec on st-catherine as well... there was one on decarie as well if I remember correctly a few years ago

[Protoman]

Originally Posted by MahtimusPrime09

Hey all, just jumped onto this discussion. Just wanted to know, where would be the best place to get comic books, new and old, at a cheap, or at least decent price? Or for fun, which is the nicest? For the range lets say from around Decarie to the West Island. Thanks in advance.

Carsley Comics recently reopened and they have a lot of back issues. What you are looking for EXACTLY might help steer you in the right direction

Otherwise from a broad sense, within 2 blocks of each other downtown you got Captaine Quebec, Astro Books and 1,000,000 Comics, all with new/old and trades in various levels of stock.