For fans ready for “Cloak & Dagger’s” second season to just start already, the show’s WonderCon panel delivered.
“Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger” stars Olivia Holt (Tandy a.k.a. Dagger), Aubrey Joseph (Ty a.k.a. Cloak), Emma Lahana (Brigid O’Reilly) and showrunner Joe Pokaski hit the Anaheim Convention Center on Friday armed with the entire first episode of the upcoming season.
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7:15 a.m. March 30, 2019An earlier version of this article failed to include the full name of Jeph Loeb, head of Marvel Television.
But before debuting any footage, Pokaski teased during the brief Q&A session with moderator and head of Marvel Television Jeph Loeb that they “raised the bar in Season 2.”
“We upped the ante” for Season 2, said Pokaski, who will also make his “Cloak & Dagger” directing debut with Episode 7 this season. “We made their highs higher and their lows lower.”
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Emily Christiansen, 21, of Lake Forest, cosplays as Capt. Phasma from the “Star Wars” universe of films.
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Marlyne Hurtado, 29, of San Diego, cosplays as Batgirl from “Batman: Thrillkiller.”
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Joshua Winick, cosplaying as Fel Lord Zakuun from the game “World of Warcraft,” gets help putting on his costume during the 2019 WonderCon at the Anaheim Convention Center.
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James Lively, 31, of San Deigo, cosplays as a member of the Sons of the Harpy from “Game of Thrones.”
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Emily Vogt, 24, from Aliso Viejo, cosplays as Marvel’s Captain Marvel, also re-creating the comic book cover from “Captain Marvel” No. 1 in 2012.
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Peter Shmain, 24, of Los Angeles, cosplays as a steam punk mad scientist.
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Cosplaying as cats from the musical “Cats,” Hudson Hawk Pritchard, Lily Rodriguez and Rebecca Rose Gibson strike a pose at WonderCon 2019.
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Shad Armstrong, 29, of Los Angeles, cosplays as DC’s Aquaman (the Jason Momoa movie version).
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Jerry Powell, 67, of Costa Mesa, cosplays as Batman of Borg, a mashup of DC’s Batman and “Star Trek’s” Borg.
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Unmasked and at full height, Jerry Powell in his Batman of Borg costume at Wondercon.
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Dylan Bartholew, 23, of La Habra, cosplays as Orion from DC’s “The New Gods.”
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People walk past a statue of Marvel’s the Incredible Hulk at the Anaheim Convention Center.
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Kalani Patterson, 46, of Studio City, cosplays as a rebel fleet trooper from the “Star Wars” universe of films.
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Ian Long cosplays as Batman character Red Hood.
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The walkway is packed outside the Anaheim Convention Center during WonderCon 2019.
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Nik Holt, from Escondito, cosplays as DC Comics’ Green Arrow.
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Matt Wright and Tita Ghanjanasak cosplay as the Joker and Harley Quinn from the Batman universe of characters.
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Gregory Vingua of Torrance goes through comic books for sale at WonderCon.
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Jennifer Norton, 26, from Boston, cosplays as Harley Quinn from “Batman.”
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Cosplayer Dustbunny portrays Sora from “Kingdom Hearts.”
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John Lopez, 53, of Palmdale, cosplays as Lego Batman while checking out the scene from a balcony at the Anaheim Convention Center.
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William O’Neil, 32, of Palm Desert cosplays as Richter Belmont from “Castlevania X.”
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Amber Hellman-Wylie, 33, of Vallejo, cosplays as a Silent Hill Nurse from the video game and movie “Silent Hill.”
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Alyssa Darby also cosplays as a Nurse from “Silent Hill,” albeit one with an ominous-looking wrench.
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People pose for a photo in front of a replica of a stargate -- it is the 25th anniversary of the film -- during WonderCon at the Anaheim Convention Center.
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Kyrra Marie, 21, of San Deigo, cosplays as the Carol Danvers version of Ms. Marvel.
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Amy Spence poses while dressed as Samus Aran from the video game series “Metroid.”
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The street in front of the Anaheim Convention Center is packed with people and food trucks for WonderCon 2019.
(Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times) “The biggest difference between Season 1 and Season 2 is … Season 1 was more of a slow burn to get to know Ty and Tandy,” said Joseph. But the second season is more about Cloak and Dagger.
“There’s a city that needs saving,” said Joseph. “Why not us?”
There was also understandable fanfare about Lahana’s return since Detective O’Reilly seemed to have met her demise in the show’s Season 1 finale. And although the actress is happy to play Brigid again, she is even more excited about the character’s transformation into Mayhem.
As for the first episode, the main focus is on how Ty, Tandy and Brigid are coping after the events of last season. The short answer: varying degrees of “not too well.” But the episode, which ended in a cliffhanger, made it clear that the path forward for Tyrone and Tandy is to stick together.
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