Shatner plans comic book series

'Star Trek' icon William Shatner is set to turn his sci-fi novels into a series of comic books.

The actor has teamed up with illustrators at BlueWater Productions to adapt his stories into graphic novels.

He tells the Los Angeles Times newspaper: "They will be in the stores in March of 2009.

"I loved comics as a kid and. I used to sit under the sheets with a flashlight and read Superman when I was six in Montreal, and now, with the comics as they are today, it's thrilling."