About Fade Resistant
Fade Resistant is a long-lived, epic web comic by Max Kimbrough. Fade Resistant is intended to amuse an adult audience through irony, satire, and sardonic (possibly sophomoric) humor. We felt a speaking stories version of the first 48 pages of Fade Resistant would make excellent material for inmates at a local jail, who are enrolled in literacy and English Language Learning classes. In fact these students think Fade Resistant is very funny and are eager to move through the speaking stories version as fast as they can. We are indebted to Max for his permission to use the beginning of Fade Resistant in these classes.
You can find the full, non-speaking Fade Resistant web comic at www.faderesistant.com.
About This Demo
Adding speaking voices to Fade Resistant provides excellent language and literacy support. Students can hear sentences spoken fluently and in the vernacular; or they can hear individual words pronounced separately and clearly, all without the assistence of a teacher. But just as important, speaking voices enhance the pleasure, humor, and dramatic immediacy of the story. We're committed to making the audio as fresh and creative as the comic itself.
Our speakers in this demo are Chuck Mc Donald and Daniel May.
The Story Line
The demo contains a slightly edited excerpt from the beginning of Fade Resistant. In this excerpt, Jethro, a none-too-swift country boy, and Julio, a sophisticated chain-smoking Repo-man, are searching for the castle of the Evil Nasty One, otherwise known as Eno. They have been struggling through the rain and snows of a mountain called Slow Painful Death Peak.
How to Play the Demo
To hear sentences - or single word sentences like "Yay!" - spoken fluently and dramatically, touch the mouse to the word or to the magenta dot (
) at the end of the sentence.
As long as you keep the mouse on the word or dot, the sentence speaks. To stop the speaking sentence, just move the mouse away from the word or dot. (When speaking
is active, the cursor becomes a pointing hand.)
To hear an individual word within a sentence pronounced clearly, touch the word with the mouse. To stop the speaking word, move the mouse away.
You can play sentences and words in any order you want and as many times as you want. And don't forget to play sound effects, like "POOF!".
To move through the demo, click the right arrow to go forward and the left arrow to go back. The double arrows will take you to the end or the beginning of the demo.
