If you click ‘chat’ next to ‘hot/top/new/old’ you can see the remaining comments. They’re ‘floating’ though, rather than nested in a comment chain, so one comment might not link well to the next in the order they’re presented.

Edit: if you then click the link icon next to any particular comment, you can view it in its original chain and click ‘view context’ to see the previous comment (until you get to the deleted comment, when the messages disappear again).