Marty Isenberg

That's the beard he has. In the... present.

Marty Isenberg (born July 30, 1963) is an American television writer responsible for co-story editing Beast Machines alongside Bob Skir and story editing Transformers Animated. When he joined the Animated production staff his first task was to revise the production bible. Later on, he would pen the original-story Animated comic series for IDW. It was his goal to make Animated "the most fun Transformers series ever". Rock on, Marty.

Marty has also dabbled with voice acting, providing the voice of Animated Optimus Prime for the series' test-track to get early animation before David Kaye was cast for the role.

He has also contributed a significant amount of work for Cartoon Network and other properties. His highest profile non-Transformers work has been as a writer for the 2003 revival of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Other works include such comic-to-cartoon properties as Batman the Animated Series, Spider-Man, X-Men, and Sam & Max: Freelance Police!, as well episodes from Godzilla: The Series, usually in partnership with Bob Skir. From 2010 he started to create shows for The Hub, starting with the Animated-feeling G.I. Joe: Renegades.

Transformers credits

Story editor

• Beast Machines
• Transformers Animated

Writer

Beast Machines

• "The Reformatting" (with Bob Skir)
• "Master of the House" (with Bob Skir)
• "The Catalyst" (with Bob Skir)
• "Fallout" (with Bob Skir)

Transformers Animated

• "Transform and Roll Out" (triple-length episode)
• "Nanosec"
• "Along Came a Spider"
• "Megatron Rising - Part 2"
• "Garbage In, Garbage Out"
• "A Bridge Too Close, Part II"
• "TransWarped" (with Michael Ryan and Marsha Griffin)
• "The Arrival" (IDW Publishing miniseries)
• "Transformers Animated: The Game" (Nintendo DS game)
• "The Stunti-Con Job" (BotCon 2011 comic)

Transformers: Prime

• "Operation Bumblebee, Part 1"
• "Crossfire"
• "Triage"
• "New Recruit"

Rescue Bots

• "Rescue Boy"
• "Sky Forest" (story)
• "All Bots Great and Small"
• "A New Hero"

Voice actor

• Isaac Sumdac ("Bee in the City" only)
• Sentinel Prime ("The Stunti-Con Job")
• TransTech guard
• Drive-through speaker

Convention guest

• BotCon 2008
• BotCon 2011
• BotCon 2014

Notes

• According to the convention's magazine advertisement, Bob Skir and Marty Isenberg were invited to BotCon 2000, but did not end up attending.
• On the Transformers Animated season 2 DVD set, Marty provides episode commentary on "Mission Accomplished" and "Garbage In, Garbage Out" alongside Eric Siebenaler, Derrick J. Wyatt and Matt Youngberg.
• Marty has said he prefers to do self-contained episodes and then build on them in later episodes, than to do multi-ep story arcs: "I'd rather not have everything planned out for the entire season."
• Someone who looks suspiciously like him appears at the Burger Bot in "Human Error, Part I", alongside the Decepticon-allied humans Cancer and Hydra designed after the Super-God Masterforce characters. (Marty, is there something you need to tell us?)
• The sidebar of a newspaper article in The Allspark Almanac reports an interview with a "Hannah and Sarah Rose Isenberg" about their best-selling father.

External links

• Marty Isenberg at the Internet Movie Database

Interviews

• February 2008—TFormers
• July 2008—TFW2005
• August 2021—TFNation