***SPOILERS FF #587 SPOILERS***
Do not read this if you want to be surprised by the FF death issue.
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Okay. I do not think Torch is dead. I found myself wondering, when the annihilation wave was closing in on him. Why the hell doesn't he just fly away? The negative zone is a big place. He can just fly away and wait for Reed to get back and deal with the problem. Instead, Torch allows himself to be overtaken by the mob, and that's the last they show of him. No death blow is shown. No fight is shown. My theory is, after the page where he's shown surrounded in the mob, he goes nova, flies off into the sky, and waits for Reed to get back to open the portal. Or something like that. Maybe survives for longer in some other area of the negative zone.
Thoughts?