This issue has some insurmountable problems.
First, Sonny Trinidad takes over the pencils. He’s really, really bad. Planet of the Apes, thanks to him doing both the chapters in the issue, now becomes an ugly comic. It had some rough issues… but nothing compared to Trinidad. His reference for everything ape related seems to be the 1976 King Kong movie poster. One would think he’d never seen any of the Planet of the Apes movies.
The second problem stems from both chapters being part of the Battle adaptation. Battle for the Planet of the Apes is a dumb movie. Moench sticks with the dumb plotting of the film and it hurts. When Roddy McDowell disappears in the movie for a bit because he didn’t like the makeup or whatever, Moench doesn’t realize he doesn’t need to disappear in the comic book adaptation.
It’s not his fault, it’s bad source material.
