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Also comics aren’t canon.

(tag this post as spoilers or davey will have your neck)

you know what i mean

the comics are playing off of to-be-seen canon, just like the game is

so both are legitimate sources

The game was confirmed to be canon. There’s nothing in the comics that hints they are canon.

It is not a legitimate source.

comics are based off of canon material, they just arent able to shape it or add to it past headcanon. ryan north co-ordinates with pen the majority of his work (though no longer all of it), and he knows about all the characters. he gave us major major hints for BMO by the way, before “be more” aired.

I’d put them in different levels of canonicity, myself:

You have the show as primary canon, of course.  Nothing else.  Just what we’re given directly on the screen.

Then you have two levels of secondary canon.  Upper-secondary canon is stuff like the game, which is confirmed canon despite not being in the show, or creator comments that are irrevocably canonized.  Lower-secondary canon are things like subjective creator comments and production materials, which are not necessarily entirely canon based on either individual interpretations (what with death of the author and all that) or material being removed from the final cut of the show for any number of reasons, which may or may not show up later on if they’re even still considered remotely usable by the show’s creators in the first place.  So much changes between pre-production and final product (in any medium, really, but just look at the storyboard vs. the final episode of The Lich for an AT example) that it’s really not viable to consider production materials 100% canon.

As far as the comics go, I would consider them either lower secondary canon or upper tertiary canon - there is creator input from high canonical levels, but they’ve also made it clear that the comics are at the very most a separate continuity.  So they do not necessarily reflect primary canon, but may some day reflect primary canon, or potentially either will be inspired by or will inspire either primary or secondary canons.  I personally would look to the comics far more as a valuable source for the potential results of character interactions than any direct plot influences.

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