User blog comment:San&Ashitaka/Chapter 52 Predictions/Expectations/@comment-179280-20131130092321/@comment-10733658-20131202225626

Agreed.

However, knowing Isayama, we probably won't find out what happened and where they've been for a while. Confident that we will see Reiner and the others again eventually, because the mysteries surrounding them are so significant to the overall story.