"Every Monday, CBR shares a preview of this week's Archie Comics books. Today, Archie has released a preview of this week's Betty and Veronica Jumbo Comics Digest #316, which sees the girls, and the trest of the RIverdale crew, caught up in a mystery that could only be solved by the classic Archie Golden Age Detective Fu Chang, in a send-up of the hit Knives Out movies (with Fu Chang, naturally, playing the Benoit Blanc role).
In one of two brand-new stories in this over-sized collection of Archie comic book stories, "Games Out," by writer Francis Bonnet, artist and letterer Rex Lindsey and colorist Glenn Whitmore, a video game museum is opening in Riverdale, and all the gang has shown up to check it out. 
  • In a very clever bit by Bonnet, we learn that in the Archie universe, there is a game named after Sabrina's Aunt Hilda, The Legend of Hilda. However, there also is a game about her OTHER aunt (who, of course, is named Zelda. Very cute), but that one isn't named in the story.
In any event, Veronica unsuccessfully tries to buy the game for her father, Hiram Lodge (and yes, that means that enough time has passed that Hiram Lodge grew up playing Nintendo video games. Let that sink in). After the lights cut out, when they turn back on, someone has stolen the game! Naturally, Veronica is accused of the theft. We all know she's innocent, but how will it be proven? 
  • In steps Fu Chang, a classic detective from the days of Archie Comics BEFORE Archie Andrews was introduced (and the company was called MLJ Comics).
Fu Chang here is a stand-in for Benoit Blanc, and the whole story is a clever parody of the hit Knives Out mystery films from writer/director Rian Johnson and star Daniel Craig.RELATED:

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The cover of Betty and Veronica Jumbo Comics Digest #316
The Riverdale gang look at a museum for old video games
Someone steals from the museum with the lights out
Detective Fu Chang shows up to solve the case

BETTY & VERONICA JUMBO COMICS DIGEST #316

TWO BRAND NEW STORIES! Captain Commando makes an appearance at the Lodge Water Park and comes face-to-fin with an unexpected visitor! And Detective Fu Chang is on the case at the Riverdale Museum in a fun Knives Out parody!

Script: Ian Flynn, Francis Bonnet

Pencils: Steven Butler, Rex Lindsey

Inks: Lily Butler, Rex Lindsey

Colors: Glenn Whitmore

Letters: Jack Morelli, Rex Lindsey

Cover: Francis Bonnet, Dan Parent

On Sale Date: 8/2

192-page, full color digest

$9.99 U.S.

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Mr. Lodge welcomes Captain Commando
However, there is trouble at the pooll!
The dreaded Shark Fiend is attacking!

  • The other brand-new story, "Off the Deep End," is by writer Ian Flynn, artists Steven Butler and Lily Butler (it is cool to see a father and daughter art team), colorist Glenn Whitmore and letterer Jack Morelli. This story stars Captain Commando, another old Golden Age MLJ hero, although in this case, he debuted AFTER Archie Andrews, in 1942's Pep Comics #30, as part of a wave of patriotic-themed superheroes that debuted during World War II.

Here, Captain Commando has to help protect Mister Lodge's new theme park (which he has agreed to endorse in exhange for Mr. Lodge agreeing to give away free swimming lessons to underpriveleged youths) from an attack by the Shark Fiend!

Source: Archie Comics