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A place to appreciate the twentieth century comic character Everett True of "The Outbursts of Everett True." Feel free to check out the sticky.

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Everett True meets Old Nobody (October 31, 1912) (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Printed 112 years ago today in The Seattle Star. Image cleaned up, especially on the letters, see the original.

Found on the Library of Congress site. Feel free to pick something from there and post it yourself!

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago (10 children)

I have many questions:

WHO TF IS "OLD NOBODY"?!?
why does he have E-Tru's umbrella?
why does he look like that?
does this have something to do with Halloween?
this isn't some kind of racist thing, is it?
why does E.T. call Ol Nobody a "loafer", after he went through the trouble of bringing his umbrella?
why can't I find any info about "Old Nobody" on the web? Is this a figment of my imagination? It seems like he should have some Powers, like Punch Dodge or something like that.
That's a really nice Oi-Zuki Jodan, btw, though True-san's leaning a bit too far forward. Or maybe Everett "The Outburst" True was originally a boxer?
Does anybody have more info about "Old Nobody", btw?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I took it as nobody does this personified.

A personification of a person doing something right and true.
It is an example of something, assume he found it, or took it from the 'brella bandit.
As a figment, he has no substance.
Don't think so.
Don't think so, hope not.
This rarely or ever happen, so the nice person thing is loafing.
No, he is a figment of True's imagination. Not a thing.
A what?
Nope. But I love to speculate.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

In the source comic that Skua pointed to, the second panel is basically that character saying "you know who returns umbrellas? NOBODY!" But E.T. cut him off by bonking him.

The character also put me in mind of those old Family Circus cartoons, when the kids did something evil, the parents would say "who did that?" and the kids would say "Not me!" and "Nobody!" And there'd be invisible ghost-kids with labels like Not Me and Nobody on them running around.

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