Board Thread:DC's Legends of Tomorrow discussions/@comment-26916180-20160304125904/@comment-160289-20160304170330

I have not taken the tie-in comics seriously since Roy was a plane in the comics and then in said he was never on a plane, even though I thought that was a minor detail that could be overlooked. But now, with Shay Lamden from Earth One having died in the show (while in the comics he became King Shark and a part of the Suicide Squad) and now Snart and Rory, I strongly believe those stories are not canon.

It sucks, because they could really explore the background of some characters and give us stories we probably will never see on the show (thus making the comics an important medium from the Arrowverse) but instead, they make stories that will later be contradicted. That is why I generally don't like tie-in material.

I hope at least Arrow: The Dark Archer, isn't contradicted, because they are revealing some interesting truths about Malcolm (and it's written by John Barrowman himself).