Wednesday, June 07, 2023

Today in Comics History, June 7: Happy birthday, Karl Urban!

Celebrate his birth today in both settings rural and urban: It's the birthday of actor Karl Urban, out of The Bourne Surpemacy, Pete's Dragon, Doom, Thor: Ragnarok, The Lord of the Rings, Xena: Warrior Princess and many more, including (or course), roles of...Doctor Leonard "Bones" McCoy in the Kelvinverse Star Trek films!:


photo covers featuring Karl Urban as Dr. McCoy on Star Trek (2011 series) #42 and 50 (IDW, February and October 2015)

...as William "Billy" Butcher in The Boys...


cover of The Boys Omnibus v.2 (Dynamite, June 2019)

...and as cinema's only Judge Dredd in the cult favorite movie Dredd:


from "Thrill-Power Overload: 40th Anniversary Update! Judgement Time" in Judge Dredd Megazine #379 (Rebellion, 17 January 2017), text by Karl Stock

Happy birthday, Karl Urban! And your less important twin, Karl Suburban.

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