In issue number 141 of The Fantastic Four...

published in November 1973...

Reed Richards has to usehis antimatter weapon on his own son...

who Annihilus has turned intoa human atom bomb.

It was a typical predicamentfor the Fantastic Four...

because they weren'tlike other superheroes.

They were more like a family...

and the more power they had,the more harm they could do to each other...
without even knowing it.

That was the meaningof The Fantastic Four-
that a family is likeyour own personal antimatter.

Your family is the void you emerge from

and the place you return to when you die.
And that's the paradox

-the closer you're drawn back in...

the deeper into the void you go.

in The Ice Storm (1997)