I'm afraid I just didn't think of crediting Bons by name since I was providing the link to all the Bad Kelsey stories. If that was a faux pas, I sincerely apologize.
Well, obviously Eral opting out is a different matter entirely. And anyway, it wasn't anything worthy of French terminology, I just thought it was weird. Not least of which, as Bons points out, "Jason Compton" and to a lesser extent "Kelsey" is usually a thing you only want to mention in passing at the Attic.
I imagine the ideal way to introduce it is something like the stereotypical "nervous young man in a drugstore" condom purchase.
"Yes, thank you, I'll be treating you to a work inspired by Bons, Eral, David Gaider, JRR Tolkien, Douglas X. Cringely, Malcolm X, Xavier Cougat, Xandozan the Exhalted,
jasoncompton, Glen A. Larson, and Harper Lee."
But the story and the brickbats seem to have found their stride anyway. Chapter 9's comments, in particular, gave me a good laugh.