Unless we find out that Earth 11 Star Sapphire is actually a female Hal... didn’t she say she and Hal were a lot alike? Maybe that cover is 2 Hals vs 2 Carols
Yup, that's him.
I'm pretty surprised that Morrison & Sharp haven't done a story focused on Pol Manning in the 58th Century yet. The whole Dr. Strangefate idea was great. That was when both Broome & Kane were getting bored with the usual superhero spacecop stuff and really started getting goofy and weird. I'm sure Broome's growing experimentation with pot helped.
Morrison's smart enough to not come near that relationship with a 10 foot pole.
Remember, he did Seaguy with Cameron Stewart, who recently got exposed as a sleazebag who took advantage of underaged girls. Morrison is a pretty savvy guy when it comes to how the media works. He's not going to give some overeager clickbait site any ammunition they could use to smear him.