It also depends on what you actually want to do. you can: 1. Use poser to render the complete panels and scenes. In that case poser 4 will do but poser 5 is better cause it handles more rendering capabilities. I use this mostly. Plus with python you can batch render meaning you can set up your scene then fire off a script that renders all frames while you sleep or work. 2. Use poser as a drawing aid. In this method you use poser to set up a figure then print them out in outline or wire frame modes then trace and draw your panels. Here Poser 4 will do nicely since you don't need rendering capability. A very cheap, and fast way to get professional looking art. All you need to know is how to trace, add details and ink. 3. Rendering cartoon mode. This is a special render mode used to create disney/anime/simple color cartoon looks. Poser 5 does this. Poser 4 doesn't or you have to do a lot of tricks to get it to do so. Again all panels are rendered in this mode and the comic is made that way. Its basically a render variant. 4. Use poser for gray scale renders to be converted to BW line art. I have had some success with this and am currently working on a methodology to get this more efficient. Works real well with simple types and simple back grounds like using Anime Doll. Basically you use the cartoon display mode or even the cartoon render mode to render your scene. You then bring it into photoshop as a gray scale and position frames, do touch up etc. On a final pass you convert the page to 300/600 or 900 dpi black and white (two color) using duotone or dither filters. Voila you have work that looks a lot like professional line art and is printer ready. In this case you could get by with p4 but p5 works much better if you use the toon shaders. hope that helps