Originally Posted by
CaptCleghorn
I'd imagine an "evergreen" work to not depend on continuity. When a reader picks it up, they should not have to know much, if anything, about the characters. In fact, that heavy continuity might very well be a disadvantage in that even if the story is set outside of continuity, it may very well have that "another Spider-Man story" look. Dark Knight Returns was about a future version of Batman and in that brief phrase, it's separated from the thousands of Batman stories out there.
Gillen's Young Avengers is a good work. King's Vision would also make a nice evergreen book. Something like Fantastic Four: World Greatest Comic Magazine might also be fitting, although I can't remember the FF story's creators. The collected Franklin Richards: Son of a Genius stories are a perfect item for Marvel. It might be creators, it might be Marvel's lack of ability in this area, it is probably due in part to the heavy continuity, but the only thing that I am positive about is Marvel wants more evergreen works and that they are working on ways to produce them.