i'm sure it's not the exact same team. and there's still a time gap which smurfs with the continuity.

anyway it may technically be considered canon, since they own the story. and i'm loathe to disagree with this point, but i'm afraid i have to. you can't take a really great book, then piss and vomit all over it 10 years later, and go "HEY I WROTE THE ORIGINAL, SO THIS PISS AND VOMIT IS CANON"

you can't do that. common sense has to step in somewhere and say "Look, piss and vomit do not fit here. i don't care that you own it. this is not right"

i can see a better world for all of us...