Superstorm Sandy-inspired Hawkeye #7 to be illustrated by guest artists Steve Lieber, Jesse Ham

Marvel has announced Steve Lieber and Jesse Hamm will illustrate “Hawkeye” #7.  The January-shipping issue will deal with a devastating storm in a comic inspired by the recent superstorm Sandy and its aftermath in New York and New Jersey.

Here’s how Marvel describes the story.

Blockbuster writer Matt Fraction teams with Eisner Award winning artist Steve Lieber (Whiteout, Whiteout: Melt), and artist Jesse Hamm (Good As Lily) to tell not one, but two stories of heroism that will resonate with fans worldwide. Separated by the massive storm, follow both arrow-slingers as they struggle to help those who need it most make it out of this tragic event in one piece.

“Hawkeye has turned out to be a book about a regular guy doing superhuman things so this seemed the appropriate place to tell a story about precisely that — regular people, real people, coming together in the face of this once-a-century scale disaster,” said Matt Fraction in a news release. “We kinda-sorta blew our schedule up to make this happen; the book was written in a few-days of frenzy and will be drawn in two halves — a Clint Barton story handled by Steve Lieber, and a Kate Bishop story drawn by Jesse Hamm. Both are Portland guys, like me, and both are phenomenally talented. I’m blessed to be able to work with artists of their caliber at all, let alone on a suicide mission like this book.”