Shane McCarthy

2009-07-26T07:01:00Z

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[[Image:ShaneMcCarthy.jpg|right|150px|thumb|Tonight on ''Top Gear'', Richard Hammond will drive a jet-powered dragster and a comic franchise into the ground.]]

{{bigquote|I wouldn't read anything I wasn't enjoying either.|Shane McCarthy<ref>[http://www.allspark.com/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=51978&view=findpost&p=1053581 Comment made on the Allspark.com forums, on November 2, 2008]</ref>}}

'''Shane McCarthy''' is an [[Australia]]n comic book writer. He has written for DC Comics's Batman in ''Detective Comics'' and was responsible for the reinvention of the Riddler during the five-part "Riddle Me That" storyline in ''Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight'' (which was immediately ignored, then [[retcon]]ned away by the "Infinite Crisis" event). He has recently started writing ''Transformers'' comics for [[IDW Publishing]], with his first series being ''[[All Hail Megatron]]''.

The first details of ''All Hail Megatron'' were revealed by McCarthy in a television interview on the disreputable Australian tabloid current affairs programme ''Today Tonight'' on January 16, 2008. He was quoted saying that the story would be about a "world without the [[Autobot|Autobots]]", but later retracted his comments, claiming he had been misquoted.<ref>[http://forum.idwpublishing.com/viewtopic.php?t=3076&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=90S Shane McCarthy clarifies ''All Hail Megatron'' details on February 20, 2008 on the IDW forums]</ref> Considering the quality of ''Today Tonight's'' journalism (trust us, it's terrible), it's hard not to give Shane the benefit of the doubt on this one.

One of Shane McCarthy's passions is swing dancing. He is the owner of the Swing It! swing dancing school in Perth, Western Australia.<ref>[http://swingit.com.au/?page_id=6 Swing It! About Us/Teachers page]</ref>

He is not a fan of the [[Transformers (2007)|2007 ''Transformers'' movie]].<ref>[http://www.smactalk.com.au/?p=64 Based upon his pleasure in a blog post about a fan praising ''All Hail Megatron'' while deriding the 2007 Movie</ref>

He is a fan of [[Simon Furman]], has read everything he has produced, and would never ever do anything to "piss all over what that man did"<ref>[http://oneshallstand.com/articles/shane-mccarthy.html Q&A with Shane McCarthy at oneshallstand.com]; January, 2009]</ref>. This explains why [[All Hail Megatron]] fits so [[Spotlight: Optimus Prime|seamlessly]] and [[Hunter O'Nion#Notes|respectfully]] into [[IDW continuity|previously established canon]]!

Despite what you may read about him on this Wiki, he is genuinely a wonderful human being.

==Comic bibliography==
===IDW Publishing===
* ''[[All Hail Megatron]]'' #1–12 + some part of issues 13–16.
* ''[[Spotlight (comics)|Spotlight]]'' [[Spotlight: Blurr|#20 ''Blurr'']]
* ''[[Spotlight (comics)|Spotlight]]'' [[Spotlight: Drift|#22 ''Drift'']]
* ''[[Spotlight (comics)|Spotlight]]'' [[Spotlight: Cliffjumper|#23 ''Cliffjumper'']]<ref>[http://www.newsarama.com/comics/090301-wondercon09-IDW-movies.html Cliffjumper announced at Wondercon]</ref>''

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.shanemccarthy.com/ Official website]
* [http://www.smactalk.com.au/ Shane McCarthy's blog]
* [http://9am.ten.com.au/video.htm?vxSiteId=4a40990c-a06c-401b-8663-6f890bb8f3dc&vxChannel=9am%20Books&vxClipId=1427_9am-774LG1-220509&vxBitrate=300&CMP=LEC-DANCEgetVideoLink Television interview on 9am with David & Kim]

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Australia

2009-07-26T06:59:52Z

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[[Image:Whatliesbeneath Australia.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Crikey. Fair dinkum. Too right. G'Don ya, mate. Bonzer. a Dingo ate my baby. Didgeridoo.]]
'''Australia''' is a nation-state on the planet [[Earth]]'s Southern Hemisphere. The world's largest island, the majority of it seems to consist of semi-arid or desert regions known as the [[Outback]]. The majority of the fauna and flora is unique to the country, and all of it deadly to [[Human|humans]], most notably the infamous and murderous dropbears.

In [[Unicron Trilogy|some continuities]] at least, the [[Accents|Australian accent]] is supposedly very similar to that of the inhabitants of the planet [[Nebulos|Nebulon]], or vice-versa.

==Generation 1==
===American cartoon continuity===
====''The Transformers'' cartoon====
After the initial [[Decepticon]] threat was repulsed, [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] wrote in his journal that "all of the world's governments" were assisting the [[Autobot|Autobots]]' attempts to return to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. This would presumably include Australia. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 3}}

===Japanese cartoon continuity===
====''The Headmasters'' cartoon====
The Decepticons built one of their 'Death Towers' under the capital city, [[Canberra]]. [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]] was left there to watch over it and thereby treated the locals to a show of him kicking [[Defensor (G1)|Defensor]]'s skidplate. {{storylink|The Final Showdown on Earth (Part 1)}}

====''Super-God Masterforce'' cartoon====
The Decepticons built an underwater base off the coast of Australia, their construction efforts causing increased volcanic activity and earthquakes that damaged the city of Sydney, which then drew the attention of the Autobot [[Godmaster]] [[Lightfoot]]. While the [[Headmaster Junior|Headmaster Juniors]] performed rescue operations in Sydney, [[Ginrai]] and Lightfoot fought against the threat of [[King Poseidon]]. {{storylink|Escape!! The Underwater Volcano Erupts}}

==Unicron Trilogy==
===Dreamwave Energon comics continuity===
The West Australian outback was the site of [[Alterenergy]]'s [[01 Source]] Exploratory Excavation/Drilling Operation, where both [[Brian Jones|Dr. Brian Jones]] and his son [[Kicker Jones|Kicker]] worked. The mining drew both a group of protesters including [[Alexis]], as well as a squad of [[Terrorcon (Energon)|Terrorcons]] searching for [[Energon (Energon)|Energon]]. {{storylink|What Lies Beneath|What Lies Beneath}}

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==Live-action ''Transformers'' movie continuity==
===''Transformers'' (2007) movie===
Based on her accent, NSA analyst [[Maggie Madsen]] originates from Australia. Why she's working for a foreign government is unknown; maybe she just wants to buy cheaper toys. {{Storylink|Transformers (2007)}}

===IDW ''Transformers'' movie comics===
When [[Soundwave (ROTF)|Soundwave's]] forces arrived to Earth, Australia was one of the nations targeted by the second wave of Decepticons. {{storylink|Alliance issue 3}}

===''The Veiled Threat'' prequel novel===
[[Kickback (ROTF)|Kickback]], [[Tread]] and [[Trample]] landed in Australia and wreaked havoc. However, [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|a]] [[Ironhide (Movie)|group of]] [[Salvage (Movie)|Autobots]] traveled Down Under and killed them. {{storylink|The Veiled Threat}}

==Trivia==
* From [[2007]] to most of [[2008]], due to the then-high value of the Australian dollar, Australians were paying some of the highest prices for ''[[Transformers brand|Transformers]]'' products in the world.

* [[Scott McNeil]], [[Rachael Taylor]], [[Isabel Lucas]] and [[Shane McCarthy]] are all Australian natives who've been involved with the ''Transformers'' franchise. Only Shane still resides there. We'll trade him if we can get Scott McNeil back.

* Australia is also home to [[Madman Entertainment]], who release ''Transformers'' Generation 1 and ''[[Beast Wars]]'' DVD's to the Aussie and New Zealand markets. They give the Aussies more DVD features than we get, the ''bastards''.

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