Shane McCarthy to do more Transformers writing

[Sky Shadow]

I didn't have any big problems with AHM and I really liked Drift. It's pretty uncommon these days to get a new character in Transformers Fiction, Drift isn't just another Gun or sword, he's someone who's done a lot of Bad and if I recall the story properly, was undergoing a lot of soul searching and self doubt as a result.

Perhaps not the most original character in modern fiction but seriously how many new characters have there been in the last decade that can't have some element of their character considered a reflection of something we've already seen.

The problem was that Drift didn't need to be a new character, McCarthy just needed to use Carnivac, Cancer, Star Saber or any other number of Transformers who already would have fit that role. It's fine to make up a character when existing ones don't work (e.g. Rung, Emirate Xaaron, Botanica, Alice, etc) but not when it's a cliché we already have in abundance in the Transformers universe.