That was part of it - reincarnation is as there from the start in the 40’s. Johns added more to it, but it was Venditti’s Hawkman run in 2018 that said he reinvested across *space and time* to tie together all the contradictory versions. They’re just all true!

And Venditti added new fun reincarnations including cowboys, Kryptonians, and more. He could’ve done great backups in his run featuring different incarnations