Shane McCarthy

Shane McCarthy (born 24 July 1975) is an Australian writer best known for his comic book work.

Career

A comic book fan from an early age, McCarthy's first widely published work was the three-part Batman backup story Low for DC Comics in 2004, beginning in Detective Comics #797. McCarthy later was responsible for a reinvention of the Riddler character in the five-part Riddle Me That beginning in Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #185 (2005) and followed it up with Victims in Detective Comics #816 (2006), pitting Batman against Zsasz.^[1]

Other published works include Zombies: Feast for IDW Publishing and contributions to Event Horizon for Mam Tor Publishing, and Star Wars Tales for Dark Horse.

McCarthy completed a twelve-part Transformers series entitled All Hail Megatron for IDW Publishing^[2] He is the creator of the character Drift^[3]

His work appears in Marvel's Dark X-Men: The Beginning #1.

Between writing projects McCarthy runs a swing dancing school in Perth Western Australia.^[4]

Bibliography

Transformers for IDW Publishing

• All Hail Megatron (12 issues, 2008–2009)
• Spotlight: Blurr (one-shot, 2008)
• Spotlight: Drift (one-shot, 2009)
• Spotlight: Cliffjumper (one-shot, 2009)
• The Transformers: Drift (4 issues, 2010)
• Mars Attacks: The Transformers (one-shot, 2013)
• The Transformers: Drift - Empire of Stone (4 issues, 2014-2015)

Batman for DC Comics

• Low "Detective Comics" #797 - #799 (2004)^[5]
• Riddle Me That "Batman: Legends of The Dark Knight" #185 - #189 (2005)
• Victims "Detective Comics" #816 - #817 (2006)

Others:

• "Black Eight" in Star Wars Tales #21 (2004)
• Event Horizon #1 (2005)
• Event Horizon #2 (2005)
• Zombies! Feast (2006) ^[6]
• Dark X-Men: The Beginning #1 (2009)

References

External links

• Official website
• Interview with Pulse News 11 January 2006
• Interview about All Hail Megatron with Newsarama April 2008