I don't want to spoil this, but could the secret villain in the hooded black garb be Appa Ali Apsa?
 

interesting theory. Never heard of him. So how many guardians are still alive that arent part of the guardians 
 
there is Appa Ali Apsa - seems to have lots of motive but sounds like he's lost he mind so unless he has regained it i cant see him being the new threat 
 
Krona- seems diabolically smart enough and has motive but no recent motives and not totally sure of his wear abouts, plus he looks taller then the rest of the Guardians 
 
Ganthet - Part of the Green Lantern Corps. Seems disgruntled towards the guardians but not hostile no real motives as far as we can tell 
 
orange lantern of space sctor 3001 - is a Guardian of the Universe that fell to Larfleeze while trying to retrieve a box of parallax while in the presence of the Orange Light of Avarice.    She now serves as an Orange Lantern avatar . Simple motivation could be doing the bidding of Larfleeze or maybe just sucomb to the power of the orange lantern on want to collect the entities but has now taken it a step further.  
 
Sayd - Sayd has agreed to serving as the Guardian of the Orange Lantern Corps.  Could simply be doing Larfleezes bidding or may have sucomb to the power of the orange lantern.  
   

Does anyone know how many people died in Star City? Because I was thinking that maybe each tree in that newly created forest represents a dead Star City resident.

" @DEGRAAF: Krona is currently the Worldsoul of Earth One. "

" @ComicMan24 said:

" @DEGRAAF: Krona is currently the Worldsoul of Earth One. "

i thought i remembered that but i thought that was from Trinity series and i wasnt sure if the was supposed to be cannon or else worlds type "

Whats with Eobard Thawne earning his life back? (Brightest Day #7) and in the Flash (or Rogues) Blackest Night mini he was hung upside down and had a white lantern symbol on him.....whats with that any1 know?

the Eobard Thawne hanging upside down was from the future (after blackest night) while the one that brought back Barry was from even further in the future (when he breaks free (i think) Eobard Thawnes mission to get his life back was to bring Barry Allen back to life
(from the speed force)

I don't get my comics until the weekend but man if #9 is filler that sucks it finally felt like BD was kicking into gear.  
 
@DEGRAAF I wish I could remember where I read about that it might help lol.  I think it was in the cr@p they do at the end of the comics now.  Those news articles, man I wish they'd go back to letter pages or just what's coming out next week in comics.  Yeah...I sometimes read those...

"@Zoom: agreed.  Was it just me or was or did BD #9 feel like a filler? "

This last GL was a waste of panels just like the last one they could have been combined. literally nothing happened.
Random Flashforward which we know won't happen.
 Magog and Max make dumb jokes about Batman while Max who is not a scientific genius is now smart enough to sabotage magical weapons.  
Batman and PG forget about Max.
Fire stops Ice from being a jerk. The boys chat it up.
Finally set up at the end 
 
Chapter before Max trolls the whole team when Cap Atom is basically immune to mind control with powers that can do anything and Ice cannot hold off Fire long enough for him to speed blitz Max Lord. Also Blue Beetle's Armor has autonomous control that should still work even when Mind Controlled. 
Plus poor Ice characterization and no explanation for Max's massive mind control boost powers. Dude goes from barely controlling Superman to mind raping everybody in the world and auto mind wiping. 
People can complain about Firestorm's power boost but at least he was always portrayed as pretty darn powerful especially once he got organic manipulation plus he has a weakness.

The villian is dangerous from a Deus ex Machina power boost that has never been explained, his motivation is he hates heroes and wants world domination which is standard villain fare, and telepathy with mind control is only a rare power if you only read DC and even then not really. He also trolled the entire team when Captain Atom should have cleaned his clock in less then a second. The last two issue of BD were far superior. 
We already knew all the Kingdom Come stuff, Max lords new found superboosted powers with no explanation was the only interesting we learned. How does a guy go from barely controlling Superman to mind wiping the whole world with an automatic re delete function? Max continues to troll JLI with another trap. Honestly, 26 chapters of max outsmarting and tricking the heroes makes the heroes look  lame with a high degree of incompetence and is ridiculous especially when they should have finished him last chapter.

None of the Brightest Day powers have been explained.  We don't know why Martian Manhunter is killing plants, we don't know why Aquaman summons dead fish, we don't know why Hawk is Hawk instead of Extant, we don't know why Professor Zoom has negative speed force and we don't know why Captain Boomerang has Black Lantern boomerangs.  Max Lord also got a power boost.  He doesn't yet understand how he got it.  Is it a plot device power boost?  Yes.  Is there an explanation?  Yes.  Do we know it yet?  No.  Oh well. 
 
Max Lord doesn't hate heroes or want world domination.  He wanted to save the world from metahumans but he realized that he was wrong.  Now he wants to reform the JLI and also stop armageddon.  In doing this, though, he seems to be speeding up the doomsday clock rather than slowing it down. 
 
I'm not seeing him trolling the team.  He actually wants the team to succeed in being heroes but they're so interested in stopping him (with good reason) that he pretty much has to just retreat after every encounter.  Captain Atom can't stop him because he mind controled Fire to keep Atom destracted.  He's not some bad guy motivated just by hate of the heroes.  He's not Joker or Per Degaton. 
 
The last two issues of BD were same old same old.  Advance the plot of 2 or 3 of the characters in slight ways, reitterate what we already know, white lanterns are mysterious and bad guys are going to do bad things in a few issues so look out!  That's every issue of Brightest Day and it isn't getting better. 
 
We didn't already know the KC stuff.  Where did we already know the KC stuff from?  Magog's book?  Who's actually reading that?
 

The other guys powers had minor modifications and Max's black lantern residue is to kill some of the people he tries to mind control, the only one that got a power boost is Firestorm and he at least had in explanation not to mention he was always pretty strong. Max got a super massive power boost with no explantion or attempt. He could barely manipulate Superman now he can mind wipe the whole world even powerful tp's and resistant characters seem to not even know he exists, the only guy who seems unaffected is Boston Brand. I am saying Ice should have been able to hold off Fire for the second it takes for Captain Atom to speedblitz Max and knock him out. They were trolled and more than have a dozen more chapters of this is lame.  Also just because Max says that stuff doesn't mean he is tellling the truth, if actually wanted to stop Armageddon, he would have Mind controlled Magog into killing himself in chapter 9 or 10. Instead he is going to frame the JLI, so no he doesn't want to stop Armageddon.
 
BD didn't reiterate anything about White Lanterns being mysterious at all in the latest chapter and of course you have to advance the plot of a few characters there are 5 different stories that aren't directly connected. And Bad guys like Manta were actually doing bad things so not it was not just reiterated. And How is that different from us always seeing Max plot is nefarious plans.

Btw, has anyone figured out why Hawk is a good guy? 
 
I mean, I hate Amageddon 2001 too but Hank Hall was been pretty clearly evil since the early 90s.

Who knows maybe he wants to get laid by Dawn? Maybe he figures that since he got a second chance, he should be less of a jackass.

He got brought back to life the Entity can give Hawk whatever level abilities that it wants to.

HOLY CRAP!!! Brightest Day just got amazing!

"HOLY CRAP!!! Brightest Day just got amazing! "

" @danhimself said:

"HOLY CRAP!!! Brightest Day just got amazing! "

I gotta get Issue #18 now! "

" @Jake Fury said:

" @danhimself said:

"HOLY CRAP!!! Brightest Day just got amazing! "

I gotta get Issue #18 now! "

things are finally starting to come together and get exciting "

so did I understand what the White Ring was saying correctly and that none of the resurrect 12 will live past the end of Brightest Day???

" so did I understand what the White Ring was saying correctly and that none of the resurrect 12 will live past the end of Brightest Day??? "

I wonder if that little bit was as big of a revelation as I thought it was