Or is just the newest, youngest recruit who has any type of experience with Photoshop (or mspaint even) that gets a list of images and has to put the image together, which they then paste into Microsoft Office Publisher 2003 and voila, done.

I have hazy memories of unleashing the power of PowerPoint. Just as VBA provides a whole IDE baked into a vanilla install of Office and thus leapfrogs any question of 'why', so PowerPoint packs a box of almost limitless publishing potential - it's got layers (sort of), it's get transparency (and a very nifty 'remove background' tool), it's got an undo button, it can export to multiple formats, it can even do animation (with sound!), it can do more! I'd wage a few cookies on PowerPoint.

This was a joke on some security podcast I listened to. More realistically, some nerd in the agency does it graphics on his/her free time and shows it to their boss.

"Let's roll with it!" the boss exclaims.