10 Things Marvel Wants You To Forget About The Fantastic Four

10. They've Actually Been To Heaven

There is a LOT to love about Mark Waid's 2002 run on Fantastic Four, from its focus on simple, character driven narratives, to the beautiful cartoony artwork of the late great Mike Wieringo, and of course, its willingness to go where no Fantastic Four run before or since has been willing to go.

Case in point, the one adventure that the FF have been on that later books have tried to ignore. Not because it's bad, but because - well - what do you DO after "the Fantastic Four go to Heaven and meet GOD"?

After their last battle with Doctor Doom led to the death of Ben Grimm, Reed decides "ya know what? No. I'm not dealing with this! I'm gonna get my best buddy back!" and so rebuilds the machine Doom built to save his mother from Hell, but calibrates it to instead get them to the other place.

The story, particularly the scene where they meet God, who has of course taken the form of Jack Kirby, is excellent like the rest of Waid's run. But it's no surprise that future writers mostly ignore this. After all "I went to heaven and met God" is probably something you wanna keep to yourself, even if it actually happened to you.