As always, William Shatner is a busy man. The Hollywood legend has a couple of different projects he's promoting at this week's Comic-Con International in San Diego -- including a reading on Thursday from "The Autobiography of James T. Kirk" and a panel commemorating the debut of the "Cinematic Graphic Novel" adaptation of his 1996 novel "Man O' War." CBR has an exclusive six-minute preview of the new take on "Man O' War," produced by LNL Partners and Panelfly.

The folks behind "Man O' War" define the term "Cinematic Graphic Novel" as neither traditional digital comics or a standard motion comic, but rather something in between. It's animated and there's music, but no voice actors reading dialogue or narration; letting speech bubbles and captions serve their traditional purpose. The novel was adapted by writer Mariano Nicieza and artist Wilson Ramos Jr., with Shatner said to be directly involved with the translation.

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"I think that the cinematic part of it is innovative with the sound effects and music and the motion that we're able to bring to it," Shatner told CBR last month of the "Man O' War" adaptation. "And hopefully, in the future, it will also be interactive so that you can press the screen and get a portion of the book that refers to the portion of the comic that you're looking at, so you get a further explanation of what's going on from the eBook."

The first installment of the 16-chapter "Man O' War" Cinematic Graphic Novel will be available today, July 8, on on iTunes, Comixology and Vimeo.