>>222588483Completely true. So you fall to subjectivity for evaluation. The writing you could find in comics back then could have certain value as a literary work. The problem with comics is that they tend to switch writers, sometimes quite often, and you end up with garbage that makes older work look bad.
What Berserk had was something few works of art have, and I use "art" with full meaning: consistency. Same author, same writer, same illustrator, same rules. Miura as a person grew alongside the art, writing, and themes in the story, and it allowed for excellent characterization and world building, on par to many other fantasy works, if not fiction works. And it helps greatly that it has beautiful works of art alongside it.
So yes, art cannot be objectively measured, else hyperrealism would be the apex of art. In Berserk, though, you see something that certain Marvel stories lack as independent works. Even as an universe, the fact many writers are involved introduces a problem of consistency, and flat out degrades the quality of an otherwise good work by forcing it to play nice with the worlds of other writers.
