Bully Says: Comics Oughta Be Fun!: 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!:

'Our film series is dead, Jim.'

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...

'Hughie, you've done a murder. Comparatively speaking, appearing on the cover of an omnibus will be a piece of cake.'

'Hughie, you've done a murder. Comparatively speaking, appearing on the cover of an omnibus will be a piece of cake.'

cover of The Boys Omnibus v.2 (Dynamite, June 2019)
...and as cinema's only Judge Dredd in the cult favorite movie Dredd:

'Suree, I am the law, but if you want to be the law for a while, that's cool, too. No worries, mate.''

'Suree, I am the law, but if you want to be the law for a while, that's cool, too. No worries, mate.''

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.

Wednesday, June 07, 2023

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

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