RIP Spartacus

Today actor Andy Whitfield succumbed to his battle with lympoma in his home in Australia.  While I've long maintained that the fight scenes in Spartacus were the bastard love child of 300 and Gladiator, if the two were close blood relatives, Mr. Whitfield's performance throughout the series was pretty badass as he crushed his enemies, saw them driven before him, and heard the lamentation of the women.  When this guy wasn't busy raising the he-man index for the rest of us he was successfully out Russel Crowe-ing Russel Crowe. 
I've very sorry to hear of his passing, he will be missed.

I've killed more people than cholera