(manic) Brightest (mon)Day #9--Things Just Move Slower In These Parts

So, at the end of Blackest Night #8...

Now, we know that Brightest Day #0 takes place at least several days later, and yet in the issue's epilogue:

Really? There's a big hole in the road, and one of the most powerful objects in the universe is just laying there, and it's still there several days later? The yokels of Silver City just sit around gawking? No one thought to call the Justice League, or S.T.A.R. Labs? Really?

I imagine the days passed like this:


WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?

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And if you're going to say that both of the epilogues were taking place at different times than the stories that preceded them, well, I can hardly be blamed for the ridiculously poor storytelling, can I?