If they can bring back dead characters from the 70's that only had minor appearances at best, it's fairly safe to bet that the Torch will stay dead.
BUT!
Which Human Torch will it be? Johnny Storm, or the android Human Torch from The Invaders (who has, for the last 47 issues, taken the place of Johnny Storm in order to experience life as a human being after being flung out of time by the original Baron Zemo's temporal displacement beam -- last seen in Invaders #7 1962 -- while Johnny, tired of the lifestyle of the rich and famous -- last mentioned in FF #63 -- needed a break from it all and has dyed his hair black -- the perfect disguise!)
Or will it really be Johnny Storm, and one of The Celestials will show up 9 or 10 issues from now and tell us that some great calamity is coming that only Johnny Storm can save the universe from, which spurs it to break their vow of non-interference (isn't that The Watchers?) and bring him back to life just in time for the 14 series cross-over which will involve everyone in the Marvel Universe fighting against Galactus Maximus (a gladiator version of Galactus who also survived the death of the previous universe but has awakened much later), and at the exciting climax of that battle, when everything is looking bleak for the heroes, Johnny will find himself in a strange white room with a little red button marked 'off' and will push it, turning off the robot created by The Beyonder as a test for 'our' universe to see if it deserved to continue to exist?
One never knows....
But it'll be interesting.
