Thanks a lot for the answers so far. :}
As I said with my first post, I bought the original volume 1 about 6 years ago and have been waiting to buy the series when it was closer to being caught up with the Japanese release and maybe had some of its issues fixed. I think I recall you talking...
Heyo Berserk experts. =x With the Dark Horse releases catching up to the Japanese ones, and with rightstuf.com having a 40% off Dark Horse sale, I was thinking about finally picking up the US books, but have a bunch of questions to barrage you with first. =p (after spending the past 2 days...