>>7176290Basically yes. Ben had been recently cured of being The Thing but he felt like he was letting down the team and missed being a hero. Reed whipped up a Thing suit, that was far more powerful than a suit with a little zipper had any right to be, and Ben went back to being The Thing. Eventually he annoyed Galactus and the purple planet eater blasted him with an energy that morphed him back into The Thing.