Glad to see someone else noticed this limitation with wget. I do have the patience. Searched all over the web for a solution for a couple weeks now and even tried alternatives to wget but really wanted the wget solution to work. Finally wrote my own solution. It is a bash script. Couldn't get it to work with a one-liner but got it down to two wget calls and a couple sed calls to rewrite the img URLs. It's a very early iteration but I have a feeling it will have a few more before this is all done with. Calling it 'qarkzilla.sh'. I'm releasing it further down this thread so others can start tinkering with the idea and optimize it.