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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Tom Manning is a
fictional character from the Dark Horse Comics universe. He is director
of the Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense.Manning has classically
been portrayed as a stuffed-shirt bureaucrat who refuses to trust the
paranormal members of his agency, even though their presence is critical
to the successful defense of the planet. In recent years, Manning has
softened his approach to his superhumans; Roger the Homunculus, for
example, was promoted to leader of his own squad even though Manning, at
one point, had a bomb placed in Roger's chest as a precautionary
measure.
