Everett True Comics

Oh, cool, there's an Everett reference in Old Nobody on the page you linked.

I like how they always have the exact same punchline, you don't even need the second panel

OOOH!! Mystery solved! I'd tried searching, but it turns out the terms I should have used were "meek nobody comics". Thanks!

I have some answers (but not the big one).

A "loafer" is an old timey word for tramp, from German/Dutch "landlaufer" meaning "land walker".

The rest is speculation, but I think this is a sort of anger at nobody returning his umbrella. Nobody does this, which is why this "person" is just a stick. Someone stole Ev's umbrella and didn't return it. But you can beat up nobody, so, here's a literal strawman to beat up.

https://www.barnaclepress.com/comic/Nobody/

Looks like someone had basically the same idea at the same time with another character, only the punchline was that "nobody" challenged the thing instead of Everett (forcefully) doing it

Old Nobody looks like the start of a creepypasta. Like in all aspects of their being. Weirdly shaped, no information, people hostile to it (although this is True, he's hostile to almost everyone). Just weird!

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.

why does he look like that?

He has no body

I read this as this is something nobody does

My guess is that True is objecting to someone using the passive voice: having borrowed his umbrella without asking and then returning it without taking responsibility, insinuating that persons unknown are to blame for the inconvenience that he is now taking the credit for remedying.