diff --git a/classes/diskcache.php b/classes/diskcache.php
index ed334b2d2..0df8d7cd4 100644
--- a/classes/diskcache.php
+++ b/classes/diskcache.php
@@ -253,6 +253,26 @@ class DiskCache {
 		return touch($this->get_full_path($filename));
 	}
 
+	/** Downloads $url to cache as $local_filename if its missing (unless $force-ed)
+	 * @param string $url
+	 * @param string $local_filename
+	 * @param array<string,string|int|false> $options (additional params to UrlHelper::fetch())
+	 * @param bool $force
+	 * @return bool
+	 */
+	public function download(string $url, string $local_filename, array $options = [], bool $force = false) : bool {
+		if ($this->exists($local_filename) && !$force)
+			return true;
+
+		$data = UrlHelper::fetch(array_merge(["url" => $url,
+							"max_size" => Config::get(Config::MAX_CACHE_FILE_SIZE)], $options));
+
+		if ($data)
+			return $this->put($local_filename, $data) > 0;
+
+		return false;
+	}
+
 	public function get(string $filename): ?string {
 		if ($this->exists($filename))
 			return file_get_contents($this->get_full_path($filename));
diff --git a/plugins/af_comics/filters/af_comics_gocomics_farside.php b/plugins/af_comics/filters/af_comics_gocomics_farside.php
index 0399015ab..e4e230516 100644
--- a/plugins/af_comics/filters/af_comics_gocomics_farside.php
+++ b/plugins/af_comics/filters/af_comics_gocomics_farside.php
@@ -50,8 +50,22 @@ class Af_Comics_Gocomics_FarSide extends Af_ComicFilter {
 					if ($content_node) {
 						$imgs = $xpath->query('//img[@data-src]', $content_node);
 
+						$cache = new DiskCache("images");
+
 						foreach ($imgs as $img) {
-							$img->setAttribute('src', $img->getAttribute('data-src'));
+							$image_url = $img->getAttribute('data-src');
+							$local_filename = sha1($image_url);
+
+							if ($image_url) {
+								$img->setAttribute('src', $image_url);
+
+								// try to cache image locally because they just 401 us otherwise
+								if (!$cache->exists($local_filename)) {
+									Debug::log("[Af_Comics_Gocomics_FarSide] caching: $image_url", Debug::LOG_VERBOSE);
+									$res = $cache->download($image_url, sha1($image_url), ["http_referrer" => $image_url]);
+									Debug::log("[Af_Comics_Gocomics_FarSide] cache result: $res", Debug::LOG_VERBOSE);
+								}
+							}
 						}
 
 						$junk_elems = $xpath->query("//*[@data-shareable-popover]");