I'm not really sure what you are getting at. The cartoon is the cartoon. The comics are the comics. They don't necessarily follow on from each other in one specific continuity but are stories and continuities that influence each other or come from common themes and inspirations, like Goktimus says. Or at least that's how I look at it.

Eg I don't read a comic and say "that's wrong because it isn't how it happened in the cartoon"