Well, Moench certainly comes up with something interesting for this issue. The original story—with Rico Rival doing the art—is about someone in the seventies, presumably just after the astronauts in the first movie launch, who builds a time machine to get them back from the future.
The story’s original and well-written, it just doesn’t make any sense. The astronauts wouldn’t have been lost after their launch. No one would think they needed rescuing. If Moench had worked in the apes from the future coming back and telling people things… maybe. But he doesn’t.
Rival does a fine job on the art, both the regular seventies stuff and the Planet of the Apes stuff. It’s an interesting story.
The Beneath adaptation continues, with Alcala stuck doing a lot of talking scenes in boring locations. Moench does what he can, but both he and Alcala are spinning their wheels.
