2.5 stars...I don't have the heart to give it 2.
I feel kind of bad hatin' on G-Mart. It seems like a nice enough place, the prices are reasonable, and the staff are nice. But I was disappointed when I stopped by to check it out. First of all, it's hidden in a building on Main St...paper signs with arrows on them lead you down winding corridors until you eventually reach the door (a dutch door!). You enter through a random empty space that looks like it was/is occasionally used as storage. Then you actually enter the comic book shop.
It's...a lot smaller than I was expecting. And not very densely stocked. I noticed a few cool indie comics, including Paping. Also quite a few boxes of back-issues, which are always fun to browse. I really like trade paperbacks/graphic novels and the selection was pretty limited. If you're looking for current issues of comics then there's a good chance you'll find it here. However, for anything else I wouldn't count on it.
One of my favorite things about going to a comic book shop is BROWSING. I know this is somewhat frowned upon. Don't read the comics and all that jazz. But I could barely bring myself to spend 10 minutes here, because after making one pass around the store, I felt like I was done and that there wasn't really anything worth looking at.
Other reviewers mention that G-Mart will order comics for you--that's cool and all, but I'll be honest here. If they don't have it, I'm just going to go on Amazon and buy it. Or buy it directly from Fantagraphics. Or Drawn & Quarterly. Or what ever.
I really wish the first room that you enter through had also been full of comics. Why is it almost totally empty? So many more comics could fit into this store. I guess I just don't understand why the space seems so poorly utilized. There could be so much more awesomeness going on here! But there isn't.