Well it was directly written by one of the creators, with the other on as a consultant. Which makes it clearly the point they were building towards and intending the entire time.

Especially as they admitted the only reason why they didn't be "more openly gay" and opened the comic with the gay kiss is because the network was holding them back, so clearly this was what they truly wanted it to be.

You don't need to consider it canon, we all have our series we feel that way about (I got strong opinions on Dragon Ball). Buts its existence tells what they were trying to do with the series proper and that's my point all along.