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Turtletrekker wrote: I would be very, very interested in Pilgrim's reasoning in such matters. It all seems very arbitrary to me. I'd love to ask him, but I'm not on Twitter. If I had to guess, I'd say that the "inspired by" comics were created with the intention of being accessible to casual fans of MCU movies, while not restricting the writers to the pre-established continuity.

In these two tweets, Pilgrim makes it clear that the 'inspired by' comics are not canon.