St. Jude's, Wolverhampton

Another great quality poster from St. Jude's, as usual.  However, whereas normally the quality of the design and production are both far better than the content of their posters, this one is so jam packed full of punny goodness, with both verbal and visual playfulness, that it would still have worked if it had been drawn on the back of wallpaper offcuts with a packet of half chewed crayolas.  This my friends, is world class punning at the very highest level.

The only thing that lets it down slightly (and this is a minor caveat) is my regular point about not letting the audience work things out for themselves, feeling the need to ensure we work out that the answer is Jesus - rather at odds with the 'draw your own conclusions' message.  Anyway, surely in this case Jesus is a metaphorical pencil sharpener, rather than the pencil itself, which is rather a representation of life in general, or as I would personally interpret it, our stubby, broken-ended souls, awaiting sharpening.  I do like the choice of ecclesiastical purple though - good call.

Another little niggle - great poster, top punning... so why not lash out on a wee bit of lining paper for the frame and mount it more centrally.  As they do say, the Devil is in the details.