Editing Shane McCarthy

[[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. His first major comics work was a back-up story in ''Detective Comics'', and later he was responsible for the temporary reinvention of the Riddler during the five-part "Riddle Me That" storyline in ''[[Batman]]: Legends of the Dark Knight''.  Beginning with ''[[The Transformers: All Hail Megatron|All Hail Megatron]]'', a "soft reboot" of [[IDW Generation 1 continuity]], McCarthy has written several ''Transformers'' comics for [[IDW Publishing]].  

McCarthy's comics are known for their decompressed storytelling and [[wikipedia:Brian Michael Bendis|Brian Michael Bendis]]-style approach to dialog.  The theme that runs through his Transformers comics is that both the Autobots and Decepticons have lost their grounding in their ideals.  McCarthy's most contentious addition to the mythos, the character [[Drift (G1)|Drift]], serves as a mouthpiece for McCarthy's theme.   

Outside of comics, 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>

==Comic bibliography==
===IDW Publishing===
* ''[[The Transformers: All Hail Megatron|All Hail Megatron]]'' #1–12, half of #14.
* ''[[The Transformers: Spotlight |Spotlight]]'' [[Spotlight: Blurr|#20 "Blurr"]]
* ''[[The Transformers: Spotlight |Spotlight]]'' [[Spotlight: Drift|#22 "Drift"]]
* ''[[The Transformers: Spotlight |Spotlight]]'' [[Spotlight: Cliffjumper|#23 "Cliffjumper"]]
* ''[[The Transformers: Drift]]'' (4-issue miniseries)
* ''[[Mars Attacks: The Transformers]]''
* ''[[The Transformers: Drift - Empire of Stone]]''

==Notes==
* 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]]s", 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.
* He is not a fan of the [[Transformers (film)|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> nor the new incarnation of [[Drift (ROTF)|Drift]] depicted in ''[[Transformers: Age of Extinction (film)|Age of Extinction]]'', deeming him a racist stereotype.
* 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> though this didn't stop him from completely ruining the plans Furman had for the character [[Hunter O'Nion]] and his partner [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]].
* McCarthy reported on his blog that neither he nor artist [[Guido Guidi]] were given complimentary ''[[Transformers: Generations|Generations]]'' [[Drift (G1)|Drift]] figures from [[Hasbro]]. He considered this to be rather lame and agreed with a reader that Hasbro should be ashamed.<ref>[http://www.smactalk.com.au/?p=292 Samurai For Sale, SMAcTalk, September 1, 2010]</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.shanemccarthy.com/ Official website]
* [http://www.smactalk.com.au/ Shane McCarthy's blog]
* [http://www.myspace.com/shane_mccarthy MySpace page]
* [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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