Following Ben's death at Reed's hand, what was left of the Fantastic Four used a machine created by Doctor Doom to contact his dead mother to travel to heaven and retrieve Ben's soul. It was there that they met God himself (who artist Mike Wieringo depicted as an artist with a striking resemblance to Jack Kirby), and he gave them a glimpse of their future with a sketch which showed Marvel's First Family still together and happy long into their old age.
