Help Us, Gail Simone...

...you're our only hope.

OK, maybe not.  But I'd like to think she'd at least understand my complaint here (yes, I'm going to complain again.  That wasn't my original intention with this blog, but it does seem to be what I end up writing about a lot).

I was in Target today looking for a birthday present for a little girl (not my own).  My LG was with me, though, and we went to see if there were any books we'd like to get for the birthday girl.  I had forgotten (bad Mommy!) that today was the day that I Am Wonder Woman (I Can Read Book 2) came out (you might recall LG has a Wonder Woman obsession).  Well, while we were looking at the books, I saw I Am Superman (I Can Read Book 2), which reminded me.  But no, Target didn't have it.  That's OK - they don't claim to have the world's largest book selection.  So I started looking at the other books (theoretically for Tinkerbell, but that's another story) and noticed that there were several early reader superhero books.  Besides Superman, Target had Batman Classic: Meet the Super Heroes: With Superman and Wonder Woman (I Can Read Book 2), which made LG very happy, because even though they didn't have the Wonder Woman book, they had a book with Wonder Woman in it.  Then I noticed some Super Friends books. Excellent!  Surely Wonder Woman would be in those! Hmmm...Super Friends: Flying High (DC Super Friends) (Step into Reading)...nope, no Wonder Woman.  Super Friends: Going Bananas (DC Super Friends) (Step into Reading)...no Wonder Woman there either.  Brain Freeze! (DC Super Friends) (Step into Reading)...hmm, missing there too.  I will admit here that I only flipped through the books, I didn't look at them really carefully.  I'm hoping that I managed to miss Wonder Woman in all three books, and that LG managed to miss her in the one she looked at.  Sadly, though, I don't think that's the case.

OK...so now I'm noticing a pattern here.  First, Target has a TON of early reader superhero books (there were a bunch of Marvel ones also).  But, no, they don't have the brand new Wonder Woman book.  I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt here.  It was just released today, and some sites are actually showing a release date of tomorrow.  So maybe they WILL carry it, but they just haven't gotten it yet.  I'll have to remember to check on that in a week or two (though we'll be receiving it on Thursday through  Amazon Prime).

But can someone, anyone, tell me why exactly Wonder Woman seems to have been removed from the Super Friends?  I don't understand...I know, she's a girl, which might scare away the highly-coveted non-reading little boy demographic, but Wonder Woman really should be there.  A very brief bit of research indicated that the books are based on the Mattel toy line, which from what little I could find on it seems to have eliminated Wonder Woman from its basic Super Friends line up.

Of course, this follows up on the heels of a weekend visit to a local comic store that has a huge number of action figures, and not a Wonder Woman in sight (apparently the only one they had in stock had been sold shortly before our visit).  Why only one Wonder Woman figure?  Needless to say, LG is getting very disappointed by the lack of Wonder Woman stuff in the world, and I'm starting to run out of explanations for her.

We won't even go into the looks we get at McDonald's when we get a kid's meal with a side salad and a Batman toy instead of the doll.