Bushmaster Archives

Mustafa Shakir may not be a household name, but his appearance in Marvel's Luke Cage season 2 a John "Bushmaster" McIver may change that He was asked during the red carper world premiere of the new season how he prepared for both the physicality of his role as well as for the character's Jamaican accent[...]

The 13-episode season will be released all at once on June 22nd. Photo by David Lee/Netflix From what we saw in an earlier trailer, Bushmaster (Mustafa Shakir) walked up and sucker punched Luke (Mike Colter), and a video of it got around Now the folks of Harlem seem to be questioning their hero and doubting he can[...]

McIver is one of a handful of new villains being introduced to the series, and like Cottonmouth and Diamonback, McIver has a comic book counterpart with a snake themed codename… Bushmaster Cast in the role of McIver is Mustafa Shakir (The Night Of). McIver first appeared as a villain for Danny Rand in the pages of[...]

In the comics, John McIver was a gang lord who would eventually become Bushmaster, a powerful crime boss and criminal financier who would find himself in conflict with Danny "Iron Fist" Rand, Cage and Knight time and time again. Tilda Johnson is best known to comics fans as Nightshade, who would also find herself at odds with[...]

Joe Jusko, an amazing artist and the guy who introduced me to Blue Moon beer, is working on a series of Marvel Masterworks cards and posted some of his